Mantis is the bug trackign system I will be using for MoneyMan.

Installing Mantis is not too hard, once you figure out the requirements and security settings to allow you to install.

Here's a step by step guide on how to install Mantis along with its required software.

1. Install MySQL which can be downloaded from http://www.mysql.com/
2. Install PHP which can be downloaded from http://www.php.net/
3. Download the latest MySQL components for PHP from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/php/
4. Extract the MySQL PHP components with the name php_*.dll to the PHP install extension directory
5. Extract the MySQL PHP driver libmysql.dll to the PHP install directory
6. Edit the PHP.ini file, usually installed in your Windows system directory and uncomment the MySQL extension or add them if not there
   • extension=php_mysql.dll
   • extension=php_mysqli.dll
7. Downloadand extract the Mantis BT to your webserver directory, usually C:\InetPub\WWWRoot, to end up with Mantis installed in the following direcotry C:\InetPub\WWWRoot\Mantis
8. Open your browser and type http://localhost/mantis in the address and follow the screens to install Mantis
9. Delete the Admin directory from the Mantis web directory for security reasons

Make sure you enter the proper MySQL username and password with DB creation rights (e.g. root) when prompted by the Mantis installer.

Now you should have Mantis running on your system.

Note 1: When installing Mantis on my laptop, I had a few directory problems with it. What I had done was extract Mantis to my desktop and then copy the folder to C:\InetPub\WWWRoot, which basically copied the security settings of the directory along with it. All I had to do then was create another directory in C:\InetPub\WWWRoot and copy the files to it from Mantis. This worked for me.

Note 2: After installing Mantis you might be propmpted to manually copy the configuration settings to one of the php file. Follow the screen prompts, it's quite simple.

Note 3: The administrator user password for Mantis is root. Change it the first time you login.