Ajato

The first step for every web application, is: install a web server! Ajato will also need a database server.

For this tutorial, we will demonstrate the Apache and MySQL installation, mostly because they are free and quite easy to install. But remember: Ajato might work with virtually any web and database servers.

Windows
For Windows users, the easiest way to install both is, believe me or not, install XAMPP (a ready-to-go PHP installation!). You should go to xampp web site and download the XAMPP lite version, since it has everything needed by Ajato. To install it, just unpack it on C:\. Yes, it must be on C:\ (becoming C:\xampplite). To start and stop the servers, execute the C:\xampplite\monitor.exe and enable Apache and MySQL.

Linux (Ubuntu or Debian like)
For you that use Linux, just install the apache2, mysql-server, phpmyadmin (Yes, PHP...). No further configuration is needed.

PHP and Database
If you are curious about why we suggested to install PHP, now it's the answer: Ajato will need a database on your DBMS, but it cannot create by itself. You should perform this. If you installed everything like recommend before, just go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin. It will open the MySQL manager. After login, on the very first page, you can create a database. We suggest you type "ajato"!

That's all.