1. Install Apache, PHP4, MySQL (v. 4.1+). You can use XAMPP to quickly get started. XAMPP has all PHP extensions that the BuzzMonitor requires. The major extensions required are MySQL, GD2, CURL, XML and MHASH. There may be other extensions that you will need to add, depending on your current PHP configuration.
2. Increase memory limit in php.ini to 32M or 64M. Enable query caching in MySQL.
3. Download the custom installation tar (about 5.2MB) and extract it.
4. Create a virtual host pointing to the extracted BuzzMonitor folder. We strongly encourage to install BuzzMonitor in a root of a domain or subdomain virtual host. Make sure you enable "Allow Override All" and have mod_rewrite enabled in the virtual host.
5. Navigate to the "database" subfolder of your BuzzMonitor folder. Locate SQL dump file buzzmonitor.sql and import it into a database in your MySQL installation (you must have InnoDB enabled!)
6. Edit sites/default/settings.php file under the BuzzMonitor folder to properly set up database. In particular, you may need to change the variable that looks like:
   $db_url = 'mysql://root@localhost/buzzmonitor';
7. Access the website. BuzzMonitor will ask for a user/password. Default credentials are:
   user: admin pass: test
8. Set up scheduled jobs to make sure periodic tasks are properly run. On a Linux system, this means setting up a cron job like the following:
   0,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -q -O /dev/null http://example.com/cron.php In this case, cron will run every 15 minutes, which is a reasonably good interval for a BuzzMonitor installation.
9. If something does not work start from the beginning. We do not provide support for BuzzMonitor installation but if you experience some problem that you are convinced is not unique to your effort and might interest us - let us know. If we agree, we may get back to you. Thank you

Getting Started

Once you have BuzzMonitor installed, please take a look at our [Quickstart Guide].