<div dir="ltr">i would like to try but i'm a bit scared :)<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/19 Julian Tenney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">OK, we're good to go again. Here's how to install Xerte Online Toolkits<br>onto a localhost provided by xampp on windows. Please follow the<br>
instructions carefully...<br><br><br>Install XAMPP<br>- Download xampp from<br><a href="http://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-win32-1.6.7-installer.exe" target="_blank">http://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-win32-1.6.7-installer.ex<br>
e</a>;<br>- Run the installer, choosing to install apache and mysql as services<br>- Open the xamp control panel and stop apache and mysql<br>- Goto c:\xampp\apache\conf\httpconf.conf file<br>- Remove the comment ('#') from the following line: #LoadModule<br>
rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so<br>- Restart apache and mysql in the xampp control panel<br><br><br>Install Xerte Toolkits<br>- Download and install the Xerte Online Toolkits from<br><a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/downloads/toolkits.zip" target="_blank">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/downloads/toolkits.zip</a><br>
- Create a folder called 'toolkits' in c:\xampp\htdocs\<br>- Extract all the files from the zip to c:\xampp\htdocs\toolkits\<br><br><br>Setup Xerte Toolkits<br>- Navigate in your browser to <a href="http://localhost/toolkits/setup/" target="_blank">http://localhost/toolkits/setup/</a><br>
- On the first page click 'next'<br>- On the second page click 'next'. These first two pages contain<br>important information for any sys admins setting up toolkits on a n<br>production server.<br>- On the third page, enter 'localhost' as the host, 'root' as the<br>
database name, leave the password blank, enter 'toolkits' for the<br>database name and leave the prefix field blank<br>- On the next page enter 'root' for the database account and leave the<br>password blank<br>
- On the next page, enter 'NULL' in each field<br>- On the next page, click 'next'<br>- On the following page, enter 'NULL' in each field<br>- On the following page, enter 'NULL' in each field<br>
<br><br>You should now be at the 'Install Complete' page.<br><br>- Now rename the c:\xampp\htdocs\toolkits\demo.txt file and to demo.php<br>- Navigate to <a href="http://localhost/toolkits/demo.php" target="_blank">http://localhost/toolkits/demo.php</a><br>
<br><br>And away you go. Many thanks to Pat for fixing up the issues we've found<br>today.<br><br><br>Have fun, let us know how you get on,<br><br><br>Julian<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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