a) unzip the files to a folder (for example c:\blogs) b) Go to your Web server (php/mysql) and run the phpmyadmin c) Create a mysql database blogs , username root , password root (you can setup anything) d) Go on phpmyadmin and import the database.sql file at the created database The file include\dbcommon.php hat the settings $host="localhost"; $user="root"; $pwd="root"; $port=""; $sys_dbname="blogs"; You have to set it up, depents of your php/mysql server. (If you follow exaclty step A,B,C , D and mysql server is the same as Mysql then you dont have to change settings) E) copy(Ftp) whole folder (c:\blogs) to your ftp server F) You are ready! There is a user:admin , password:admin , so you can use that or you can register a new one on login page Hope to find it usefull