💎 Indie Games Show

Install Indie Games Show

Server check

✓ PHP 8.1 or newer
✓ PDO MySQL driver
✓ mbstring extension
✓ JSON extension
✓ OpenSSL (secure keys)
✓ Folder is writable
✓ Schema file present

Database

Create an empty MySQL database in your hosting panel first, then paste its details here. The installer creates the tables.

Host Port

Database name Database user Database password

Site

Site URL No trailing slash. Must match how visitors reach the site, or login redirects break. Site name

Email

Confirmation links are sent from here. Leave the server blank to use PHP’s mail() — it works, but from a shared IP it lands in spam often. Filling this in authenticates as a real mailbox on your own domain.

Sender address Must be a mailbox on your own domain. SMTP server Blank uses mail() instead. Your host’s panel calls this the outgoing server.

SMTP username Port

SMTP password Encryption

Founder account

The top authority on this site. It can moderate submissions and change anyone's role, and — unlike an ordinary admin — the database refuses to demote or delete it. That is your way back in if an admin account is ever compromised.

Username Email Password 10–72 characters, with at least one letter and one number.