CMS Made Simple has been installed into ${INSTDIR} You should point this to the DocumentRoot of your web-server: # ln -s ../cms /var/www/htdocs/cms (make sure you use a relative symlink since Apache is chrooted) You will also need to add these lines to you php.ini file: extension=mysql.so extension=gd.so and proceed to complete the installation by reading the INSTALL.txt which has been installed as ${INSTDIR}/doc/INSTALL.txt, starting from step 2. You can ensure you have a working install by accessing: http:///cms/