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The partnership will include a new web design, Internet marketing, web hosting, and conversion analysis in an effort to build the brand of Green Zine in an already competitive market.

Green Zine has chosen to go the route of online branding in response to the decline of print. While major newspapers and magazines seem to be getting by, niche magazines have had to shut down shop or operate under constrained conditions. Print also carries much more overhead costs that may now be avoided.

The clear alternative was to create an online magazine that offers all of the same functionality of print and then some. Green Zine will have a custom administration panel to write, edit, and administer all portions of their new online magazine.

The project is scheduled to be live Summer of 2011.

This guide will detail the installation process for CentOS, Fedora, RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and SuSE. There is also a graphical installer available for Linux systems if yours isn’t listed, and some such as Ubuntu have easy to use software installation utilities you may use as an alternative.

Installing PostgreSQL on Ubuntu and Debian

Ubuntu and Debian are similar enough that you should be able to use the same installation process for both. The quickest way to install Postgres is through the command prompt.

Enter the following in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install postgresql

Go through the installation process and configure based on your needs. The default configuration should suffice if you are not sure what your needs are, specifically.

The default username is “postgres” and the default password is not set. It is highly recommended that you create a user with the following:

sudo -u postgres createuser –superuser $USER sudo -u postgres psql postgres=# \password $PASSWORD

You also have the alternative of using the Ubuntu Software Center or Debian counterpart instead.

Installing PostgreSQL on CentOS, Fedora, and Red Hat

It’s equally as easy to install Postgres on each of the these three Linux distributions as it is with Ubuntu and Debian. The difference is that you will be using the yum command.

yum install postgresql postgresql-server postgresql-libs

You can then connect to the server using psql:

su – postgres psql -d template1 -U postgres

Postgres uses port 5432, so also make sure this port is open in your /etc/sysconfig/iptables file.

Installing PostgreSQL on Gentoo

Gentoo is easy to setup, but you have to remember to set the password. By default it would be your current user’s password, which isn’t ideal.

emerge postgresql passwd postgres

Now you will be able to create the database environment. Replace $CURRENTVERSION below with the actual current version number of PostgreSQL. Example: postgresql-8.0.4

emerge –config =postgresql-$CURRENTVERSION

Now you can start the PostgreSQL service and add it to the system boot:

/etc/init.d/postgresql start rc-update add postgresql default

...and you're done! A bit more work than other distributions, but still easy enough.

Installing PostgreSQL on SUSE Linux

The SUSE installation isn't tough either: just a matter of syntax.

yast2 -install postgresql-server

Now start the server and set the username and password:

rcpostgresql start su postgres -c psql postgres ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'postgres'; ALTER ROLE

It shouldn't have to be mentioned that a username and password of postgres isn't ideal for production environments.

Troubleshooting The Install

There are some syntactical differences from time to time. It's likely you are using a deprecated command or an out of date repository.

If you are having problems, feel free to post a comment below. You will get a detailed email response within 24 hours

In this tutorial we will be setting up Zend Framework with XAMPP: a web server solution that allows us to mimic our production environment without sacrificing power or usability.

Download XAMPP

If you don’t have XAMPP installed already you should do so.

You can follow a quick and pain-free guide for your choice of operating system below:

• Install XAMPP on Windows
• Install XAMPP on Linux

Download Zend Framework

Zend Framework has multiple packages and customizations to choose from. For the purposes of this tutorial we will be downloading the minimal package. Feel free to download the full package and the documentation if you want to look at code samples and get a quick-start guide to Zend Framework.

You can find Zend Framework here:

http://framework.zend.com/download/current/

Note that you don’t need to register to download Zend Framework; skip the packages and near the bottom you will find direct links to the ZIP or tarball archives.

Installing Zend Framework with XAMPP

Enter XAMPP: a solution stack that enables developers to get local projects up and running with a simple installation.

The estimated installation time is just a couple of minutes.

Download XAMPP

XAMPP for Windows can be downloaded by following the link below.

Be sure to grab the latest stable release:

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

XAMPP Install Path

It’s recommended that XAMPP is installed into the C:\xampp directory. Not only does this get around file permission issues in some versions of Windows, but it’s also standard so you can receive help or use code from others with little to no configuration.

Testing The Install

What, you were expecting more? There’s nothing else to configure! You can start the XAMPP tool found in your Start menu or on your Desktop. Or, if you run a clean shop and didn’t install the shortcuts, you can find the tool here:

C:\xampp\xampp-control.exe

Once you get the tool running, start the Apache server. Most of the time you will also be using MySQL for storing information, so it’s useful to get in the habit of starting both services when you start the tool.

Open your favorite browser and type localhost or 127.0.0.1 into the address bar. If all went well you should see the following welcome screen, complete with demos and documentation:

Installation Errors

At this point you should be able to browse the demo projects at will. If you aren’t able to do so feel free to post error messages below, accompanied by any relevant information such as operating system, configuration, or modifications you have done to XAMPP.