Each release of OpenPublic comes bundled and ready to go. Installing it is as simple as installing Drupal, and the setup assistant will walk the administrator through a wizard-style setup process. Simply enter the site's basic information and the site name. When the setup assistant closes, OpenPublic will be installed and ready for content entry.

Documentation

You can learn more about OpenPublic at the Phase2 Product Community Site, where we've also got additional documentation.

Technical requirements

OpenPublic is a Drupal distribution. As such OpenPublic can run on most environments properly configured to run the latest version of Drupal. However, since OpenPublic adds large amount of functionality on top of Drupal core, it needs more resources than bare-bones Drupal. Detailed list of recommended configurations is as follows:

• Minimum of a dual-core processor with 2GB RAM (Linux) or 4GB RAM (Windows). Actual hardware requirements will vary depending on the amount of content and traffic.
• Web Server - NginX, Apache 1.3 or Apache 2.x. Drupal can also run on Microsoft IIS. Apache is the most tested platform.
• PHP – Version 5.2.x or 5.3
• Database – MySQL 4.1 or 5.x, though MySQL 5.1 is strongly recommended.
• Installing a PHP code optimizer like APC is highly recommended, especially for production use.
• Your memory_limit variable, in php.ini needs to be at least 128M, but 190M is recommended.
• If you are still having problems (seeing "white screens of death" or errors during installation) try setting:
  • max_execution_time to around 120 and
  • realpath_cache_size to 512K, 1M or even 2M.
  • max_input_time to around 120.