[Xerte] Re: trouble installing Xerte on a mac

Pat Lockley patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
Tue Nov 22 18:02:04 GMT 2011


ooops, forgot to say this

"To start XAMPP simply open XAMPP Control and start Apache and MySQL"

with thanks to the apache friends website

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Pat Lockley
<patrick.lockley at googlemail.com> wrote:
> what does http://localhost give you?
>
> Do you have skype turned on? Could you turn it off if possible?
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Maria Tannant <MTANNANT at ucreative.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Nether of these paths work Pat, here's a picture of all the files I have in the folder.
>>
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>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] on behalf of Pat Lockley [patrick.lockley at googlemail.com]
>> Sent: 22 November 2011 17:44
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: trouble installing Xerte on a mac
>>
>> ok
>>
>> now point a web browser at http://localhost/xertetoolkits/setup/ or
>> http://localhost:8080/xertetoolkits/setup/
>>
>> i think
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Maria Tannant <MTANNANT at ucreative.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> OK, your way didn't work so I unzipped and made sure everything was in the new folder called xertetoolkits inside htdocs
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] on behalf of Pat Lockley [patrick.lockley at googlemail.com]
>>> Sent: 22 November 2011 17:29
>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: trouble installing Xerte on a mac
>>>
>>> sure, you can spend quality time with your crab, Pincers
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> May I skip this intimate conversation?
>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>>>> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:25:47 +0000
>>>>> From: patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
>>>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: trouble installing Xerte on a mac
>>>>>
>>>>> ok, make a folder called xertetoolkits in this folder, then put the
>>>>> zip in this folder.
>>>>>
>>>>> Extract the zip to this folder, so all off the contents of the zip are
>>>>> in xertetoolkits
>>>>>
>>>>> so not
>>>>>
>>>>> xertetoolkits/xerte/lots of stuff here
>>>>>
>>>>> but
>>>>>
>>>>> xertetoolkits/lots of stuff here
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Maria Tannant <MTANNANT at ucreative.ac.uk>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Yes, I've found the htdocs folder,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> > Maria Tannant (FHEA) - Learning Technologist
>>>>> > Learning & Teaching
>>>>> > Maidstone Campus
>>>>> > tel: 1142 - internal
>>>>> > tel: 01622 620142
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Need HELP with myUCA? Try our help area:
>>>>> > http://myuca.ucreative.ac.uk/help
>>>>> >
>>>>> > ________________________________________
>>>>> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>> > [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] on behalf of Pat Lockley
>>>>> > [patrick.lockley at googlemail.com]
>>>>> > Sent: 22 November 2011 17:20
>>>>> > To: Xerte discussion list
>>>>> > Subject: [Xerte] Re: trouble installing Xerte on a mac
>>>>> >
>>>>> > ok, in finder (bear with me as I am not very Mac)
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Go to something like
>>>>> >
>>>>> > applications/xampp/htdocs/
>>>>> >
>>>>> > (basically, you are looking for a folder called htdocs)
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Maria Tannant
>>>>> > <MTANNANT at ucreative.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>> >> OK Pat, I'm all set with both the XAMPP and Xerte toolkit downloaded.
>>>>> >> I've put the XAMPP in applications.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> >> Maria Tannant (FHEA) - Learning Technologist
>>>>> >> Learning & Teaching
>>>>> >> Maidstone Campus
>>>>> >> tel: 1142 - internal
>>>>> >> tel: 01622 620142
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Need HELP with myUCA? Try our help area:
>>>>> >> http://myuca.ucreative.ac.uk/help
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> ________________________________________
>>>>> >> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>> >> [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] on behalf of Pat Lockley
>>>>> >> [patrick.lockley at googlemail.com]
>>>>> >> Sent: 22 November 2011 17:11
>>>>> >> To: Xerte discussion list
>>>>> >> Subject: [Xerte] Re: trouble installing Xerte on a mac
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Yes, get the most up to date XAMPP you can find that is available for
>>>>> >> Mac (probably that one)
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Maria Tannant
>>>>> >> <MTANNANT at ucreative.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>> >>> Hi Pat, will I get the mac XAMPP from here?
>>>>> >>> http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Thanks
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> >>> Maria Tannant (FHEA) - Learning Technologist
>>>>> >>> Learning & Teaching
>>>>> >>> Maidstone Campus
>>>>> >>> tel: 1142 - internal
>>>>> >>> tel: 01622 620142
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Need HELP with myUCA? Try our help area:
>>>>> >>> http://myuca.ucreative.ac.uk/help
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> ________________________________________
>>>>> >>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>> >>> [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] on behalf of Pat Lockley
>>>>> >>> [patrick.lockley at googlemail.com]
>>>>> >>> Sent: 22 November 2011 16:49
>>>>> >>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>>>> >>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: trouble installing Xerte on a mac
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> you can use XAMPP now (the mac version) and I can talk you through the
>>>>> >>> full settings.
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> I'd use XAMPP if you can.
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Ron Mitchell
>>>>> >>> <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> >>>> You need to install mamp if you haven't already
>>>>> >>>> http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> Then when visiting the XOT setup use the full install not the xampp
>>>>> >>>> install
>>>>> >>>> method.
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> HTH
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> Ron
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>> >>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Maria
>>>>> >>>> Tannant
>>>>> >>>> Sent: 22 November 2011 16:29
>>>>> >>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>> >>>> Subject: [Xerte] trouble installing Xerte on a mac
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> Hello All,
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> Does anyone have any instructions on how to install Xerte Online
>>>>> >>>> Toolkit on
>>>>> >>>> a Mac locally, I have tried following the Xerte instructions, but
>>>>> >>>> stuck
>>>>> >>>> after downloading them, what do I do next?
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> Is anyone able to help please?
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> Thanks
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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