FrontAccounting/C2/Installation-of-FrontAccounting-on-Windows-OS/English

Title: FrontAccounting Installation on Windows

Author: Praveen S

Keywords: Frontaccounting Installation, xampp installation, Apache Server, PHP, Windows

Visual Cue	Narration
Slide 1: Welcome	Welcome to the spoken tutorial on FrontAccounting installation in Windows Operating System.
Slide 2: Learning Objectives	In this tutorial we will learn to:- Download FrontAccounting software. Create a database for FrontAccounting. And install FrontAccounting software in Windows OS.
Slide 3: System Requirements	To record this tutorial I'm using- Windows 8 OS XAMPP 5.6.24 FrontAccounting 2.4.1 Firefox web browser and a working Internet connection
	Let’s begin.
Slide 3: Xampp package	To run FrontAccounting, we require a web server, php and a database on our machine. We will use Apache as our web server and MySQL as our database. By installing XAMPP package, all of these will get installed together.
Slide 4: XAMPP installation:	To install XAMPP package Refer to the XAMPP installation tutorial in the PHP & MySQL series on this website. Follow the instructions given in this tutorial to install the latest version. I have already installed XAMPP on my machine.
Click on Start menu Type XAMPP	To open XAMPP, click on the Windows key on the keyboard and type XAMPP. Click on the XAMPP Control Panel icon from the search list.
Point to Apache & MySQL	In the XAMPP Control Panel, make sure that Apache & MySQL services are running.
Point to START button	If not, start these services by clicking on START button on the respective services.
Point to STOP button	To stop the services, we have to click on STOP button.
Slide 5: Error messages	You may get some error messages like: “Apache shutdown unexpectedly” or “Port 80 in use for Apache Server'” or “Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts for MySQL database.” This is because the default ports allotted for Apache and MySQL is taken by other software. Default port number for Apache is 80 and for MySQL is 3306.
	To change these ports, refer to the XAMPP Installation tutorial in the PHP & MySQL series Allot proper port numbers before proceeding further.
Open Web browser and type localhost	Let us check whether the webserver is running or not. To do so, open the web browser and type localhost in the url. If you have changed the port number, then type localhost:8080 Then press Enter key. This will take us to the Xampp welcome page.
	Next we have to create a database for FrontAccounting.
	We can do this with the help of phpmyadmin.
	To open phpMyAdmin, on the web browser address bar, type localhost/phpmyadmin or localhost:8080/phpmyadmin And press Enter. This will open the phpMyAdmin page.
Create Database Point to Database tab	Let’s create the database now. On the top left of the phpmyadmin page, click on Databases tab.
Create database section >> type Database name as frontacc	In the Create database section, type the Database name as frontacc and click on Create. This will create a database named frontacc.
	Now we will see the installation procedure for FrontAccounting.
Open Web Browser and go to frontaccounting	Open a new web browser tab and type the url https://sourceforge.net/projects/frontaccounting/
Point to Download	Here we can see Download link for FrontAccounting.
Click on Download	Click on Download.
	Immediately, a small dialog box will open.
Click on Save file option >> Ok option.	Click on Save file option and then on Ok option.
	The latest version of FrontAccounting will begin downloading.
Open Downloads folder	Once the download completes, open the folder where you have downloaded the file.
Point to the tar file	Here is the file frontaccounting-2.4.1.tar.gz which we downloaded.
Right-click >> select Extract All >> on Extract.	Right-click and select Extract All and then on Extract.
Open folder	Open the extracted folder.
Point to frontaccounting	Inside that you can see a folder named frontaccounting.
Rename as account	Rename it as account.
	Next we have to paste the folder account in the Web Server's root directory.
	The path for the root directory is “c:\xampp\htdocs”
Right-click>> Copy	Right-click on the folder account and select Copy.
Go to htdocs folder	Go to My Computer, C drive, xampp and htdocs.
Right-click>> Paste	Then right-click and select Paste.
	Now the account folder is pasted in the Web Server's root folder.
	Let us start to configure FrontAccounting.
Web browser >> type localhost/account	Open the web browser and type localhost/account or localhost:8080/account depending on your port configuration.
Press Enter	Then press Enter.
	We can see the FrontAccounting webpage.
Point to Step 1	It also says Step 1: System Diagnostics.
	This means that we have successfully installed the software packages with the Comments as OK.
Click on Continue	Click on the Continue button.
Database server settings- Server host as localhost Database Name as frontacc. Database user as root	In the “Database server settings” page enter the following details- Server host as localhost Database Name as frontacc. Database user as root
Point to password	Leave the password as blank since XAMPP in Windows doesn’t have any password, by default.
Click on Continue	Then click on the Continue button.
“Company Settings” type name of company	In the “Company Settings” page enter the following: I will type the CompanyName as ST Co. Pvt. Ltd.
Admin Password as spoken.	Admin Password as spoken. You can give any password of your choice.
Re-enter password	Re-enter the password. Remember this password. This is the login password that you need to use to login each time.
Point to Charts of Accounts	We can see two options for the “Charts of Accounts”.
Select “Standard new company American COA”.	I will select “Standard new company American COA”.
Default language >> English	Select the Default Language as English.
Click on Install	Click on the Install.
	The installation will take some time to complete.
Success message	Once completed, we will see a new window. It says the Frontaccounting ERP has been installed successfully.
Click on Click here to start	Click on “Click here to start” This will take us to the FrontAccounting login page.
Login Username as admin password as spoken	Login with the following details- Username as admin password as spoken and then click on Login.
	Now we are in FrontAccounting admin panel.
Open web browser and type localhost/account	This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize.
Slide 6: Summary	In this tutorial, we have learnt to Install XAMPP. Create a database for FrontAccounting. And install FrontAccounting in Windows.
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Slide 9: Acknowledgement	Spoken Tutorial project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India. More information on this mission is available at this link.
Slide 10: Thanks	This script has been contributed by Praveen. And this is Nirmala Venkat from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thanks for watching.

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