INSTALL

                                phpMp - INSTALL

Requirements
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1) Music Player Daemon (MPD) (0.12.0 or greater) - http://www.musicpd.org
2) Web server such as Apache (included with many distributions)
3) PHP >= 4 (works fine with PHP 5.x also) for your webserver (included with many distributions)

Options
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1) gzip compiled into PHP to browse shoutcast streams.

Download
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Get the latest release of phpMp from http://www.musicpd.org

Install
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1) move phpMp archive to a directory accessible by the web server

$ cp phpMp-x.x.x.tar.gz public_html/

2) cd to where you copied the phpMp archive

$ cd public_html

3) untar and unzip archive

$ tar zxvf phpMp-x.x.x.tar.gz

4) configure options (such as port MPD listens to and host MPD is running on)
using your favorite text editor, edit config.php

5) it maybe required that you change permissions of the directory and the files,
if using apache use something like: chown apache:apache; chmod 550

6) It is optional but *highly recommended* to make sure allow_url_fopen = On; in your php.ini

example:
$ vi phpMp-x.x.x/config.php

Using phpMp
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Point your favorite web browser at the location of phpMp on your web server

example:
http://my.webserver.com/~myusername/phpMp-x.x.x