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+**Installation instructions for the backend:**
+
+1. Download Much-Assembly-Required from [here](https://github.com/simon987/Much-Assembly-Required).
+2. Download the JDK from [here](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html).
+Install the JDK and update your PATH and JAVA_HOME enviroment variables.
+3. Download Maven from [here](https://maven.apache.org/).
+Install Maven (following the README) and update your PATH enviroment variable.
+4. Download Mongo DB Community from [here](https://www.mongodb.com/download-center#community).
+Install Mongo DB following the instructions [here](https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/).
+Update your PATH enviroment variable.
+
+**Installation instructions for the frontend:**
+
+1. Install a PHP environnment and a MySQL server (e.g. XAMPP from [here](https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html)). 
+2. Download Much-Assembly-Required-Frontend from [here](https://github.com/simon987/Much-Assembly-Required-Frontend), and place it into the ```htdocs``` folder for XAMPP. In a typical installation, for example, you could place the frontend files into the ```C:\xampp\htdocs\MAR``` folder. See [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1408/make-xampp-apache-serve-file-outside-of-htdocs) for how to run PHP code with XAMPP outside of the ```htdocs``` folder.
+3. Configure the MAR database, using the installation script [database.sql](https://github.com/simon987/Much-Assembly-Required-Frontend/blob/master/database.sql). Fire up MySQL in a Command Prompt window:
+```batch
+mysql -u root -p
+```
+After entering your root password (XAMPP default is empty, change it!), type the following commands in the MySQL interface:
+```
+MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE mar;
+MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mar.* to 'mar'@'localhost' identified by 'mar';
+MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
+MariaDB [(none)]> USE mar;
+MariaDB [mar]> \. database.sql
+MariaDB [(none)]> exit
+```
+Remember that the database.sql file must be in the same folder you run the mysql command from. 
+
+**Building instructions for the backend:**
+```batch
+:: Builds the server
+cd Much-Assembly-Required
+mvn package
+```
+
+**Running instructions:**
+1. In one Command Prompt window, run Mongo DB:
+```batch
+:: Runs Mongo DB
+mongod
+```
+2. In a second Command Prompt window, run the MAR server:
+```batch
+:: Runs the MAR server
+cd Much-Assembly-Required\target
+java -jar server-1.2a.jar
+```
+3. Start Apache and MySQL from the XAMPP control panel.
+4. Run the frontend from localhost (e.g. if you placed the frontend into the ```C:\xampp\htdocs\MAR``` folder, you could run it from localhost by typing ```http://localhost/MAR``` in your web browser).