This is the version of EMBER obtained from server atisha around September 2015 and modified to work with PHP 5 (it was running under PHP 3 at that time) and Chrome.

You will need PHP, Apache an MySQL installed - please refer to other guides available on the Internet on how to do that.

Instructions below are only guidelines and may differ slightly on your system (these refer to Mac OS Yosemite).

Make sure you secure your Web server and database with the appropriate measures - e.g. make sure you use HTTPS 
as passwords are passed in plaintext.

First, make a backup of the default Apache configuration (if youa re not sure what you are doing).

# cd /etc/apache2/
# sudo cp httpd.conf httpd.conf.bak

Now edit the Apache configuration.

# sudo vi httpd.conf

Uncomment the following line:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

Restart Apache:

# sudo apachectl restart

You can verify PHP is enabled by creating a phpinfo() page in your DocumentRoot (from your Apache configuration - the default DocumentRoot for Mac OS X Yosemite is /Library/WebServer/Documents).

# echo '<?php phpinfo();' > /Library/WebServer/Documents/phpinfo.php

Either download the MySQL DMG for Mac OS X or install via package manager, e.g. homebrew.

Start MySQL server (you may not need sudo on your system):

# sudo mysql.server start

Connect to your MySQL console and create database called 'ember'. Create user 'ember' as well and grant all privileges to that user on database 'ember'.

Copy html/connect.inc.php.example into html/connect.inc.php and set the password you used for database user 'ember' in html/connect.inc.php config file.

$mysql -u root -p
mysql> create database ember;
mysql> CREATE USER 'ember'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_super_secret_password';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ember.* TO 'ember'@'localhost';

From command line load the EMBER .sql dump file (obtained separately).

$mysql -u ember -p -h localhost ember < ember-db-dump.sql
Enter password: 

If you need to do a MySQL backup of the 'ember' database, you can do something like:

$mysqldump -u ember -p -h localhost ember  > ember-db-dump.sql
Enter password: 

You need to ensure PHP and MySQL can communicate with one another. In the case you not have /var/mysql/mysql.sock file after starting MySQL server, it is necessary to create a symlink to the MySQL's sock file (located in /tmp/mysql.sock on Mac OS).

# cd /var 
# sudo mkdir mysql
# sudo cd mysql
# # ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock mysql.sock

Sometimes it is the other way around - you may have /var/mysql/mysql.sock and not /tmp/mysql.sock, in which case you need to create a symlink tmp/mysql.sock to point to /var/mysql/mysql.sock.

You may need to configure DocumentRoot in your Apache configuration file (/etc/apache2/httpd.conf) to look something like the following:

DocumentRoot "/home/ember/EMBER"
<Directory "/home/ember/EMBER">
    # The Options directive is both complicated and important.  Please see
    # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#options
    # for more information.
    #
    Options FollowSymLinks Multiviews
    MultiviewsMatch Any

    #
    # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
    # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
    #   AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    #
    AllowOverride None

    #
    # Controls who can get stuff from this server.
    #
    Require all granted
</Directory>

Note the `Require all granted` directive - the syntax has changed as of Apache 2.4.