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Installing for the First Time
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What are the steps for installing Umbraco?
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How do you upgrade your current site?
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Which Umbraco starter kit should you use and how do you install it?
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How do you apply and manipulate Umbraco skins?
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How do you fi nd and install Umbraco modules?
Users have installed Umbraco literally hundreds of thousands of times in a variety of
environments — everywhere from an entry-level Windows XP machine, to multiserver
load-balanced sites, and even to Microsoft Windows Azure. In the vast majority of these
cases the installations complete successfully and take no more than a few minutes. The
fi rst section of this chapter contains the Umbraco quick start instructions for facilitating
a successful install. Read it, install Umbraco, and then continue reading for additional
considerations.
You can always fi nd the latest released version of Umbraco on the Umbraco CodePlex home at
http://umbraco.codeplex.com/ from the Downloads tab. The latest version of Umbraco is
also available via Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer and Web Application Gallery (
http://
www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/umbraco/
). This chapter offers a detailed overview for
installing Umbraco with both the Microsoft Web Platform Installer and directly from the
Umbraco installation fi le downloaded from the Umbraco CodePlex home.
INSTALLING UMBRACO
The text in this chapter, as well as the rest of the book, assumes that you have a PC running
Windows Vista or Windows 7 and have user permissions suffi cient enough to allow for admin-
istrative actions. If this is not the case, or if you are installing to a different environment (such
as to a shared-hosting account) skip this section for now and refer to Chapter 14, which has
troubleshooting tips. One important item to note is that Umbraco is best installed as a website
root rather than as a virtual directory under a web root, so plan on running Umbraco from
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