Similarly to the Wordpress blogging platform, Ushahidi comes with a complete administration section to manage the general platform settings and process user-contributed reports. Now that your Ushahidi instance is installed and ready to go, let’s start by looking into how this works and the available functionality.

1. Navigate to http://your_server_ip and start setup (the one you associated with the server).
2. The default password is U: admin P: admin  

Admin login URL - http://your URL/admin/
Website - http://your URL/
Upload report data - http:// your URL /admin/reports/edit
Configure your map - http:// your URL /admin/settings
Setup your SMS server - http:// your URL /admin/settings/sms

1. To allow password authentication edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config

♣ Nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
and change the following line

• PasswordAuthentication no to PasswordAuthentication yes
  - save /etc/ssh/sshd_config using control+X

1. Restart SSH server

♣  /etc/init.d/ssh restart

Step 8: Installing Plugins:

• Login to server via WinCSP or other SCP client. Login using the following info:
• IP: server IP: The elastinc IP of the deployment.
• User: ushahidi or your root user.
• Password: in our case - Tufts2012
• Port: 22

Once you are in you need to navigate to directory /home/ushahidi/public_html/ushahidi-web/plugins

• Open /home/ushahidi/public_html/ushahidi-web/plugins

To install plugin, download it to your computer, unpack it and upload it into /home/ushahidi/public_html/ushahidi-web/plugins directory

• upload plugins into plugins directory
• once plugins are uploaded you can activate them from Addons tab

To activate plugins visit http:// your URL /admin/addons/plugins/