Seagull on Shared Hosting

Setting up Seagull with SSH Access

1. Download Seagull from Sourceforge.
2. In your home directory create a directory called lib.
3. Decompress Seagull in the new lib directory.
4. Move public_html to public_html.bak
5. Create a symbolic link from /home/user/lib/seagull/www to public_html

   ln -s /home/user/lib/seagull/www public_html
   

6. Make the 'var/' directory sticky (all new files created in this directory will be created with the same group as 'var/') and writable.

   cd /home/user/lib/seagull
   
   chmod g+s var/
   
   chmod 777 var/
   

7. Next, run the installer by entering the url to your public_html directory in your browser. (ex. http://localhost/~username/ or http://domainname/)

Setting up Seagull without SSH Access

1. Download Seagull from Sourceforge.
2. Decompress Seagull in a temp directory.
3. Using FTP upload all the directories (etc/, lib/, modules/, tests/, www/, var/) and files within the Seagull directory to the directory below your web root. This is usually your home directory.
4. Next, make the 'var/' directory writable.

   cd /home/user/lib/seagull
   
   chmod 777 var/
   

5. Now rename your web directory to 'public_html.bak'
6. Rename the Seagull 'www' to 'public_html'
7. Run the Seagull Installer and in step 5 set the proper path to the Seagull www directory (ie. /home/user/public_html)