Installing the Mambo CMS is simple. Mambo uses a web installer process and complete installation basically involves only four steps.

1. After obtaining the Mambo package just transfer the package to your site and unzip or untar it
   -or-
   Unzip or untar locally, then FTP the files to your server.
2. Run the install program from your browser
3. Modify some file permissions on your server, if necessary
4. Delete the install directory

In this tutorial, we will take you step-by-step through the process of installing Mambo on your web server space.

This tutorial is also available in Flash at http://mambo-manual.org/getting-started-with-Mambo.html

We assume you have the Mambo files on your server and that you have created a database in MySQL to use for your Mambo install. See our "Getting Ready to Install" tutorial for more help with this.

Now, to get started, you just point your browser to the domain that you have set up to contain your Mambo site.

If you are using, for example, yourdomain.com, then you just point your browser to http://yourdomain.com. If you are using a subdomain or a directory within your domain, point your browser to that URL.

When the page loads, you should see the pre-installation check screen.

Next Step: Part 2