Fakoli is designed to be installed as a PHP library external to the main web root folder of your application. This provides several benefits:
Additionally most Fakoli sites require a writeable document upload area that is also external to the main web root folder. This allows Fakoli components to provide access controls on uploaded files.
Fakoli requires the following software to operate:
The following two chapters will walk you through the process for installing Fakoli on Linux or Windows, respectively. If you are a developer who is impatient to start working with the system you might like to try downloading one of our pre-configured VirtualBox appliances (Note - do not use these for production or redistribution).