§ 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.

TIP: I recommend making two accounts for yourself. An administrator account, for when you want to change things in your Pivot, and another one without administrator rights to post your weblog entries. That way it's harder to accidentaly break things, while you're getting accustomed to Pivot.

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: