niota

The niota table management system is a PHP application. The document pages use the synonym N-PAPP for niota (PHP) application.

Visit niota download page and download proper release for N-PAPP.

• unzip the folder and rename it to your needs

Recommendation

Remove detailed version information from the folder name

• copy unzipped folder into folder: Apache\<document-root>. Further details can be found here

Do not overwrite an existing N-PAPP. In case you install a new release, name the new release differently than the old release or rename the old release.*

• navigate to app\conf folder and rename file _shipped_connections.php to connections.php or copy _shipped_connection.php to connections.php
• rename file _shipped_hosts.php to hosts.php or copy _shipped_hosts.php to hosts.php

There will not be a connections.php or hosts.php in any install, as it would overwrite your local config. In case you upgrade from an older release to a new release you can copy the files from the old release. Please check the release notes if the structure of the configuration has changed for these to files

By using the _shipped* files as your current files you set the pre-configured demo connections as the active niota connections for the system client. Check in connections.php if the MySQL server port for N-MDDB is set correctly and if it matches with the port configured in MySQL my.ini config file.

If you have already a valid and well configured connections.php file from a previous release, copy this file to this folder.

• check if Apache and PHP are up and running
• open a browser window and enter the login – URL

niota.url

   http://<my_host>/<my_niota_path>/app/login.php
   
   or

   http://<my_host>/<my_niota_path>/app/login.php/?client=system

   or

   http://<my_host>/<my_niota_path>/app/login.php/?client=<myclient>

If your N-MDDB is not up and running, you cannot log in yet. Without N-MDDB you can check only the load of the login screen.

• ask your contact at about actual credentials to login, in case of a totally new install.

We strongly recommend to use your own client configuration and not to use the system client.

• continue to install/configure your client