INSTALL First install Mysql and Apache with the mod_php and the Mysql extension. Then run these bash commands using whatever paths make sense for your Apache and Mysql installs. # Set a bash variable to your ajax_chat root directory. You need to change the value # to be the directory of the ajax_chat working copy)... export AJAX_CHAT_HOME=/path/to/ajax_chat # Copy an Include in to your Apache config by running this... sudo -E bash -c "echo \"Include $AJAX_CHAT_HOME/apache_includes/local.httpd.conf\" >> /etc/apache2/httpd.conf" # Symlink /var/www/ajaxchat.brenttheisen.com to your local working copy dir. You can skip # this if you just make your root dir /var/www/ajaxchat.brenttheisen.com. sudo -E ln -s $AJAX_CHAT_HOME /var/www/ajaxchat.brenttheisen.com # Bounce Apache... sudo -E apachectl restart # Add the local hostname for the site to your hosts file... sudo bash -c 'echo "127.0.0.1 local.ajaxchat.brenttheisen.com" >> /etc/hosts' # Create the Mysql database. This needs to be run by a user that can create schemas... mysql < $AJAX_CHAT_HOME/ajax_chat.sql