Configuring the Server

All of Aerial's configurable values are contained in src_php/config/config.xml

If you are on a Unix-like system (Mac or Linux), you may want to run chmod 0766 -R ./ from the root of your project so that you do not encounter permission issues; also ensure that the project is owned by the appropriate user.

You can edit the configuration options using the Aerial Admin application, as we'll show below, but you can also edit the configuration manually. If you'd prefer to do this, see Manual Configuration

You can download the Aerial Admin AIR application from here.

Once you have installed Aerial Admin we will first need to open the project we're working on. On the home screen, click Open Project - this will take you to a file browser. Navigate to your project path where you extracted or cloned the Aerial core repository to. Click the Open Project button once you have done so.

Once you've done that, you will be presented with the project screen. Click on the Configuration Editor button.

To get Aerial working, we need to edit 3 configuration options, namely:

• Base Project path
  • This is root path of the Aerial source you downloaded earlier
• Server URL
  • This should point to the URL of your src_php/public_html/server.php file
• Database Credentials
  • Create a database and enter in the authentication details into the fields provided

Once you've entered in the values, click the Save Configuration button.

Now, load the server.php file in your browser and you should see the following confirmation message:

Aerial and all of its components appear to be functional

If not, you will see errors that will alert you to the root of the problem. If you do not see the confirmation message nor any errors from PHP, open your php.ini file and make sure that display_errors = On and restart your server.

Next Step: Database Setup