Appleseed Portal is an open source Portal and Content Management System focused on providing a high-performance,easy to use framework. The software gives designers, developers, and modern entrepreneurs a singular system to build powerful applications and intranets that run the modern enterprise on the Microsoft.NET and Windows platforms.
Windows 7 / 8 / 10 Physical or Cloud SQL Server (Express) 2005/2008/2012/2014 Visual Studio 2015 ( Visual Studio 14 ) for development .NET 4.6.1
- Release
- Grab the latest release : https://github.com/Appleseed/portal/releases
- Database
- Create an Empty SQL Server Database in a SQL Server Instance
- Give a user access to your SQL Server Databse [ Network Service is recommended ]
- Give this user db_owner in the user mapping section to your Database
- Create an Empty SQL Server Database in a SQL Server Instance
- IIS Hosting
- Unzip the archive to a non-windows controled folder such as C:\Appleseed\ [ ie : Not the Windows folder or folders locked ]
- Create a Site in IIS with a .NET 4.0 Application Pool
- Change the Identy on the Application Pool to Network Service [ The site will run under this identity ]
- Point the IIS site folder to C:\Appleseed\ or where you unzipped your archive
- Browse your Site which will cause a redirect to the Web Installer
- Web Installer
- Follow the Instructions of the Web Installer
- Give write access to the Identity [ ie NetworkService ] of your Application Pool to the below Files and Directories
- The Web Installer will do an environment check to ensure the proper permissions
- Web.config -- Needs write if you want the web installer to set your web.config up for you [ recommended ]
- This should be removed after install
- \rb_logs -- Needs write to provide error / info logs
- \Portals -- Needs write to allow writing site files
- Give write access to the Identity [ ie NetworkService ] of your Application Pool to the below Files and Directories
- Follow the Instructions of the Web Installer
- Post Installation
- On successful installation you should see a bootstrap theme and a login
- Use the default login admin@appleseedportal.net | admin
- Use Edit Profile to change your password