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

Time	Narration
00:01	Welcome to the spoken tutorial on FrontAccounting installation on Windows Operating System.
00:08	In this tutorial, we will learn to:
00:10	download FrontAccounting software,
00:14	create a database for FrontAccounting,
00:18	and install FrontAccounting software in Windows OS.
00:24	To record this tutorial, I'm using-
00:27	Windows 8 OS, XAMPP 5.6.24 , FrontAccounting 2.4.1, Firefox web browser and a working Internet connection.
00:43	Let’s begin.
00:44	To run FrontAccounting, we require a web server, php and a database on our machine.
00:52	We will use Apache as our web server and MySQL as our database.
00:59	By installing XAMPP package, all of these will get installed together.
01:05	To install XAMPP package,
01:07	refer to the XAMPP installation tutorial in the PHP & MySQL series, on this website.
01:14	Follow the instructions given in this tutorial to install the latest version.
01:20	I have already installed XAMPP on my machine.
01:24	To open XAMPP, click on the Windows key on the keyboard and type XAMPP.
01:32	Click on the XAMPP Control Panel icon from the search list.
01:37	In the XAMPP Control Panel, make sure that Apache & MySQL services are running.
01:44	If not, start these services by clicking on START button on the respective services.
01:52	To stop the services, we have to click on STOP button.
01:57	You may get some error messages like:
02:00	“Apache shutdown unexpectedly” or
02:04	“Port 80 in use for Apache Server” or
02:09	“Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts for MySQL database”.
02:16	This is because the default ports allotted for Apache and MySQL is taken by other software.
02:24	Default port number for Apache is 80 and for MySQL is 3306.
02:32	To change these ports, refer to the XAMPP Installation tutorial in the PHP & MySQL series, on this website.
02:40	Allot proper port numbers before proceeding further.
02:44	Let us check whether the webserver is running or not.
02:48	To do so, open the web browser and type localhost in the url.
02:55	If you have changed the port number, then type localhost:8080.
03:02	Then press Enter key.
03:05	This will take us to the Xampp welcome page.
03:09	Next we have to create a database for FrontAccounting.
03:14	We can do this with the help of phpmyadmin.
03:18	To open phpMyAdmin, on the web browser address bar, type: localhost/phpmyadmin.
03:28	or localhost:8080/phpmyadmin
03:35	and press Enter.
03:38	This will open the phpMyAdmin page.
03:42	Let’s create the database now.
03:45	On the top left of the phpmyadmin page, click on Databases tab.
03:51	In the Create database section, type the Database name as frontacc and click on Create.
04:00	This will create a database named frontacc.
04:06	Now we will see the installation procedure for FrontAccounting.
04:11	Open a new web browser tab and type the url [1]
04:26	and press Enter.
04:29	Here we can see Download link for FrontAccounting.
04:34	Click on Download.
04:37	Immediately, a small dialog box will open.
04:41	Click on Save file option and then on Ok option.
04:47	The latest version of FrontAccounting will begin downloading.
04:52	Once the download completes, open the folder where you have downloaded the file.
04:59	Here is the file which we have downloaded.
05:03	Right-click and select Extract All and then on Extract.
05:10	Open the extracted folder.
05:13	Inside that, you can see a folder named frontaccounting.
05:18	Rename it as account.
05:22	Next, we have to paste the folder account in the Web Server's root directory.
05:28	The path for the root directory is “c:\xampp\htdocs”.
05:36	Right-click on the folder account and select Copy.
05:40	Go to My Computer, C drive, xampp and htdocs.
05:47	Then right-click and select Paste.
05:50	Now the account folder is pasted in the Web Server's root folder.
05:55	Let us start to configure FrontAccounting.
05:58	Open the web browser and type:
06:01	localhost/account
06:04	or localhost:8080/account,
06:09	depending on your port configuration.
06:12	Then press Enter.
06:14	We can see the FrontAccounting webpage.
06:17	It also says Step 1: System Diagnostics.
06:22	This means that we have successfully installed the software packages with the Comments as OK.
06:30	Click on the Continue button.
06:33	In the “Database server settings” page, enter the following details-
06:38	Server host as localhost,
06:42	Database Name as frontacc,
06:46	Database user as root.
06:49	Leave the password as blank since XAMPP in Windows doesn’t have any password, by default.
06:57	Then click on the Continue button.
07:00	In the “Company Settings” page, enter the following:
07:04	I will type the CompanyName as ST Co. Pvt. Ltd.
07:10	Admin Password as spoken.
07:13	You can give any password of your choice.
07:17	Re-enter the password.
07:19	Remember this password.
07:21	This is the login-password that you need to use to login each time.
07:25	We can see two options for the “Charts of Accounts”.
07:30	I will select “Standard new company American COA”.
07:35	Select the Default Language as English.
07:38	Click on Install.
07:40	The installation will take some time to complete.
07:44	Once completed, we will see a new window.
07:48	It says the Frontaccounting ERP has been installed successfully.
07:53	Click on “Click here to start”.
07:56	This will take us to the FrontAccounting login page.
08:00	Login with the following details-
08:02	Username as admin,
08:05	password as spoken
08:08	and then click on Login.
08:11	Now, we are in FrontAccounting admin panel.
08:14	This brings us to the end of this tutorial.
08:17	Let us summarize.
08:20	In this tutorial, we have learnt to:
08:23	install XAMPP,
08:25	create a database for FrontAccounting,
08:28	and install FrontAccounting in Windows.
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09:00	This script has been contributed by Praveen. And, this is Nirmala Venkat from IIT Bombay, signing off.
09:06	Thanks for watching.

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