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Installation of Nitasa CMS

Currently Nitasa doesn't supports automatic installation, it supports only manual installation. Automatic installation will be there in next version of Nitasa.
To install the Nitasa on your local server or web server please follow the below steps.

before installing Nitasa I will recommended to check the Faq about "What are the system requirements for Nitasa cms?" below

Step 1. Download the Nitasa source code from source control or as a Zip file from this page and extract it.
Step 2. Create the database in MS Sql server support lets say "Nitasa-cms"
Step 3. Create a database user in MS Sql server and give permission for "Nitasa-cms" database (save username and password into safe place)
Step 4. Find the script.sql file from extracted folder and run that script into the nitasa-cms database
Step 5. Find Web.config file from extracted folder and search for the tag "<add name="NITASAConnection" connectionstring="Integrated Security=False;Initial Catalog={yourdatabasename};Data Source={yourdatabaseserver};User Id={databaseusername};Password={databasepassword};" providername="System.Data.SqlClient">"
Step 6. In above connection string replace {yourdatabasename},{yourdatabaseserver},{databaseusername},{databasepassword} variables with your actual database detail and save it
Step 7. For web site copy all the files/folder from extracted folder to httpdocs folder on website using ftp client
Step 8. For local configuration create a virtual directory in IIS and set the path for extracted folder.
Step 9. Give write permission to below folder
-> Views/themes
-> Content/media
-> Areas/Admin/assets/images/avatars</add>

Hurrey you are done with the installation

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Do I need to pay anything for using Nitasa
A: No, you do not need to pay a single penny for using it, It's 100% free of cost for you personal website or blog.

Q: Why I will use Nitasa for my website?
A: Using Nitasa you can create any type of website you want: a personal blog or website, a photo blog, a business website, a professional portfolio, a magazine or news website, an online community or a photo gallery. So it will fit into your requirements and you can make any changes at anytime without too much technical knowledge.

Q: How it is differ from any other cms?
A: Nitasa cms has a user and roles management which is very power full tool for this cms which can give you the power to control user access.

Q: What are the benefits I will get by using Nitasa?
A: Create anykind of website, manage user, manage roles, change theme, install plugins, update content, manage media, take backup etc

Q: Are there any customers using Nitasa cms for high-load web sites?
A: Yes, there are many high-load and large websites running on Nitasa cms.
Here are some of them:
GMR www.globalmovingrelocations.com

Q: What are the system requirements for Nitasa cms?
A: Below are the system requirements to run Nitasa cms on web server
-> Dot Net Framework 4.5 or higher
-> IIS 7.0 or higher
-> MSSql server 2008 or higher
-> MVC 5.0
-> Entity Framework 6.0

Q: When is the next release planned? Where do I find a roadmap?
A: You can find information about next Nitasa CMS releases here only.

Q: Can I run Nitasa cms in a cloud?
A: Yes, you can run Nitasa cms in a cloud environment.
Our clients already use Nitasa cms in Windows Azure, Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Cloud. etc

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