• Requirements
• Known Issues
• Download
• Simple Install
• Source Code
• wget or curl
• Graphical Install

Requirements

• MySQL or PostgreSQL
• PHP4 or PHP5

Known Issues

• see the bug reports for the complete list

Download

>>Open Source PHP project 38 downloads — OpenMicroBlogger

>> alternate location http://dbscript.net/omb.zip

Simple Install

• edit the file app/config/config.yml
• change the development database settings to your MySQL or PostgreSQL
• change the e-mail settings: email_from (From address) and email_name (Name of sender)
• save your changes to config.yml
• point your browser to the URL where OpenMicroBlogger is installed on your Web server, the database tables will be created
• register with your e-mail address or an OpenID to become the site administrator (the first registered person is in the “administrators” group, subsequent registrees are in the “members” group)
• that’s it! now you have a site where registered people can subscribe to people on remote sites (identi.ca, army.twit.tv) and post notices to them as well
• on most installations, the /cache folder will need to be set to 600 or 777 permissions to allow file uploads, instructions for doing this are Web-host-specific but many FTP programs can make this change to the folder

notes

• by default, file uploads are saved as BLOBs in the database. this can be a security advantage for sites uploading small files, but it will not work well with large files


• there are 2 more upload modes: Amazon S3 and /uploads


• to use the /uploads folder, open app/config/config.yml and change the “collection_cache” location for “posts” from cache to uploads


• for uploads, you will need 2 folders: /cache and /uploads, with 600 or 777 permissions


• to change to Amazon S3 edit app/config/config.yml and set the collection_cache location for posts to aws


• also, in config.yml set your awsBucket, Key and Secret options

Source Install

Subversion

svn checkout http://svn.assembla.com/svn/omb

cd omb

vi app/config/config.yml

Git

git clone git://github.com/voitto/openmicroblogger.git

cd openmicroblogger

vi app/config/config.yml

Wget or Curl Install

wget dbscript.net/omb.zip

>> or <<

curl dbscript.net/omb.zip -o omb.zip

then..

unzip omb.zip

vi app/config/config.yml

browse to the folder to create the database tables

Graphical Install

create a new MySQL or PostgreSQL database

download Code Stylist from http://codestylist.com

choose the “Quick Setup” option from the “Tools” menu

choose the “Quick Microblog” option

enter your database settings

FTP the files to your Web server

browse to the Web server folder to create the database tables