Brief Installation Overview

These are quick instructions for those who already tried to install web scripts. More detailed instructions follow.

• Download and unzip the Dolphin package to your local computer or directly to the server.

• Create a database for Dolphin on your web server, as well as a MySQL user who will have all privileges for accessing and modifying it.

• Place the Dolphin files in the desired location on your web server::

If you want to install Dolphin in the root folder of your domain (e.g. ​http://mysite.com/), upload the unzipped files into the root directory of your web server.

If you want to have your Dolphin installation in its own subdirectory on your web site (e.g. ​http://mysite.com/mycommunity/), create the corresponding subdirectory under the root folder of your server and upload the unzipped files into that subdirectory.

• Run the Dolphin installation script by navigating to install/index.php in your web browser::

If you installed Dolphin in the root directory, you should navigate to: ​http://mysite.com/install/index.php

If you installed Dolphin in a subdirectory called for example mycommunity, you should navigate to: ​http://mysite.com/mycommunity/install/index.php

• Follow the instructions on the installation screen (setting permissions, specifying necessary server info, setting cron jobs).

• Log into Dolphin's Admin Panel pointing your browser to ​http://mysite.com/admin/index.php and enter your license number (Free or Full one) into the License field of the Registration box.

• When in your Dolphin Admin Panel, you need to compile languages for the Forum component called Orca. Navigate to Plugins -> Orca Forum and click on a two-letter language code (en by default) next to the Compile Langs wording. Now refresh the page, and you won't see these annoying [L] letters anymore.

• Dolphin should be installed now. If you still doubt that the above instructions are enough for you, you are welcome to the page with detailed instructions.