1. Check the requirements first. 2. Read this first!! 3. Unpack the archive 4. Create your config file. Copy webroot/config.default.php to webroot/config.php Modify at least the following settings in this file: - define('DB_HOST','127.0.0.1'); - define('DB_USERNAME','user'); - define('DB_PASSWORD','test'); - define('FRONTEND_USERNAME','luke'); - define('FRONTEND_PASSWORD','father'); - define('ABSOLUTE_PATH', '/path/to/insipid/webroot'); 5. Copy and modify documentation/insipid-edit-me.sql and replace the placeholder. Open the file and make a search and replace: search for: `#REPLACE_ME# replace with: `tableprefix The value tableprefix has to match with the value for DB_PREFIX in your config.php file 6. Create a table if needed. Import the edited from step 5 sql file into your MySQL database. 7. Edit the robots.txt file to your needs. 8. Copy the content of the webroot folder into your webserver folder. Make the localdata folder writable to the web process to store images from link parsing. LOCAL_STORAGE is the option in the config file. 9. If you want to fully restrict your contents activate the user/password restriction in the config. 10. If you want to use the e-mail importer read the email-importer.txt file.