Recommended Browsers

• Mozilla Firefox 1.0 or later.
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 or later.

Notes

Maximum Session Idle Time before Timeout

Maximum Session Idle Time before Timeout is checked to ensure that users don't get logged out with in a short period such as less than 15 minutes. As a precaution it's not possible to continue installing OrangeHRM if the session times out in lessthan 2 minutes.

How to Fix

You will have to change session.gc_maxlifetime in the php.ini file. (Default session.g c_maxlifetime = 1440)

Important

It is still possi ble that some other php application running in the same server overriding session.gc_maxlifetime value in the php.ini file at runtime. This will be the case if you are running OrangeHRM in a shared host. Workaround is available but beyond the scope of this document.

How to enable InnoDB support in MySQL

To enable "InnoDB" please open "my" (or "my.cnf") file in a text editor and search for "skip-innodb" and add the leading "#" and restart the MySQL database server to enable InnoDB.

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#skip-innodb
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(in XAMPP for windows my.cnf is found in C:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.cnf)
(in XAMPP for linux my.cnf is found in /opt/lampp/etc/my.cnf)

Notes

Privileged Database Users and OrangeHRM Database Users

Database Server users could be assigned different rights. For the web installer to create the OrangeHRM Database, you need to give a Database user account details (user-name/password) with permissions CREATE, ALTER, DROP, INSERT under the field Privileged Database User/Password.

Since OrangeHRM requires only permissions INSERT, UPDATE, SELECT and DELETE to interact with database, the web installer could create a separate database user account to for OrangeHRM. It is always recommended that you create a separate user account for OrangeHRM. To do so fill in OrangeHRM User details(user-name/password) as required by you, and web-installer would create the account for you.

Note: Since the database user account details used by OrangeHRM are stored in plain text, it would be a security threat to have OrangeHRM use Privileged user account.

Notes

Installation will begin immediately. Once you click [install] there is no way that you can stop the installation from starting. You cannot roll back the installation as well. Click [Install] only if you are sure that you want to install with the given configuration

Notes

If the installation is aborted you will have to either DROP the database with the name you provided in the Database Creation page if it exists or key in another name for the database.

Notes

If the sending of registratio n Information fails an error message will be shown. Click [Retry] to send the details again or [Skip] to skip this step an you will not be registered.