§ Setting up the Administrator Account.
Open your webbrowser and go to the Pivot you've uploaded and set the filerights for.. On the previous page we uploaded Pivot to a folder called weblog. If your server is at www.example.com, that would mean you should go to http://www.example.com/weblog/pivot/
If you've done it right, you will be greeted by a screen like this:
Fill in the name you want for the administrator account, the password (twice) an email address and the Admin user's Nickname.
After you've clicked the 'proceed to login'-button, you'll see the actual Pivot Login Screen. If you've made a mistake, you'll be asked to correct it. The Login screen looks like this:
Type your username and password and log in. If you keep getting thrown back to the 'set up administrator'-screen. You should check if you've chmodded the files pv_cfg_settings.php and pv_cfg_weblogs.php correctly. After you've logged in for the first time, you'll see a screen similar to this:
To complete the setup, we generate the initial weblog frontpage, and view it:
Click the 'Rebuild the Frontpage(s)'- shortcut located near the top of the screen. If all goes well, it should say something like this:
Write: ../archives/archive_2003-w30.php Write: ../index.php Write: ../rss.xml Write: ../atom.xml Done!
That means four files have been written: Your frontpage, an archive page, and two syndication files, the RSS-feed and the Atom-feed.
View your weblog by clicking on the 'Test Weblog' menu item, in the left menu. This will open a new window or tab with your weblog's frontpage. If it looks ok, you're all done!
If you are getting errors during this process, something's not quite right,
yet.. Some tips to solve this:
- Make sure that you've chmodded all the necesary files correctly, and especially the folder to which the weblog's frontpage will be written.
- If you get unexpected results, it might help to turn on Pivot's debug mode: Go to , set to , save, and try again..
- If your frontpage is generated, but the layout is broken because of "Safe mode restriction"-errors, please read the page on 'Dealing with safe_mode'.