Screencast: Installing Umbraco
Note: this post is over a year old, it's very likely completely outdated and should probably not be used as reference any more. You have been warned. :-)
Rather than making a long post with a lot of images, I decided to do something new for this post: a nice little 6 minute screencast!
It's just a quick run through of how I create a new Umbraco installs on my dev machines. It's easy!
I noticed after the recording that I didn't change the path for the database files. During the creation of the new database, you can easily change the path of where the database files are stored here (buttons marked yellow):
I tend to mumble a little, I'll work on that for future screencasts (also, I didn't shave, sorry). ;-)
Hopefully this will help some people setting up their Umbraco install manually.
13 comments on this article
Nice video Sebastiaan,
I am sure there will be a lot of new people out there who will find this useful, I know I would have done when I first started out with Umbraco :)
What software did you use to make your screencast?
Cheers,
Chris
Thanks Chris.
I used ScreenToaster. It's a bit wonky and I had to do a retake because the sound stopped recording halfway through. But it's nice and free and doesn't require any software installed.
I also like the picture in picture effect, seeing someone's talking adds a lot to a screencast IMO.
Awesome Sebastiaan, I was thinking about doing the same thing :) Great minds think a like! (Or is it fools never differ .. lol) - Anyway this will be great for people starting out :) Top job
Nice! I've seen a lot of people asking "where to get started". This will be a bookmark to send them to!
Best,
Nik
thanks for this, only picked umbraco up today and now I am started thanks to you!
After looking at this screencast I can see why people use Wordpress.
Also my volume is up 100% and I still can't make out a single work you're mumbling, or read anything on that little video.
Nice video. I've followed your process and it works fine for my installation, but with one issue. The images are apparently assigned incorrect paths throughout the installation wizard and on the umbraco backend once installed.
Any thoughts on how to resolve that?
I am running iis7 sql server express on windows7.
Volume is low, can't hear well. Can you please raise the volume.
Nope, can't change it any more, sorry. Use headphones.
Hi Sebastian,
The video is excellent and comes across easy but for some strange reason I cannot get Umbraco working. I have copied the download v4.8 from codeplex, extracted and pointed a new website (in IIS 7.0 running Windows 7) to the extracted folder but I am getting 'Page cannot be displayed error'. I have not changed anything on the Web.config file and I have not set anything on my local SQL Server. From this vague details, it would be good if you can help me resolve this issue since I do not want to give up using Umbraco althought I have been almost 2 days trying to set this up.
Thanks for your help.
Hi Sebastiaan,
I have resolved the previous problem. Your instructions on the other link did the trick.
Regards.
I'm also facing the same problem, is there any solution?
I hope I get my message across:
I have no problem setting up Umbraco site as new web site on IIS (let's call it websiteA). The problem for me is getting a copy of this websiteA folder working when I copy it to root of another site and make it an application. http://websiteB/copyOfWebsiteAfolder
I did make sure correct appPool, permissions, etc. What I'm left with is resolving of URL not working. Like CSS, images (like /images/logo.png, not talking about the media folder).
So please - another answer than