[Xerte] Xerte Online Toolkits: Installation Guide

Jude Clark jude.clark at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 16:30:04 BST 2008


i would like to try but i'm a bit scared :)

2008/9/19 Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>

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