[Xerte] Installing Toolkits

[RonM]

Hi Costas
A few points...

1. I think the 000730.html list post you refer to is out of date now at
least in terms of page3.php which contains lots of form fields as you say
and these shouldn't be null. That instruction refers to a previous installer
so ignore that instruction to add nulls.
2. Although you've followed a link to download v0.91 beta what you've
actually downloaded is a preview release of v1.0 which contains a bug we are
trying to resolve but Pat is on leave until next week. 
3. The install should work in terms of completing the 4 steps but as you say
the Xampp button is redundant and more importantly if once installed you try
to create anything you'll probably get an error. So I would hold fire until
next week and news on this list.
Cheers
RonM

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Costas Calcanis
Sent: 25 March 2009 12:08
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Installing Toolkits

Hello,

I've started installing Xerte Online Toolkits (v0.91 beta) by following the
instructions at
http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/pipermail/xerte/2008-September/000730.html
. However, so far my attempts to complete the installation have been
unsuccessful. I seek for some advice and guidance.

Here's what I've done so far:

1. Install XAMPP (Success!)
- 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

2. Install Xerte Toolkits (Success!)
- 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\

3. Setup Xerte Toolkits (Failed!)
- Navigate in your browser to http://localhost/toolkits/setup/ <-- Done!
- On the first page click 'next'  <-- Which one, there are two Next buttons;
the "For XAMPP People" isn't is a dead link xampp.php. Followed the second
Next button pointing to config_setup.php
- 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.
<-- Done!
- 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 <-- Done!
- On the next page enter 'root' for the database account and leave the
password blank <-- Done!
- On the next page, enter 'NULL' in each field <-- On this page
(page3.php) there are too many fields (surely can't expect to enter NULL to
every single text box)! When I clicked on Submit Query I got many warnings
and Install complete message (see attached file). 
- On the next page, click 'next' <-- No such option available.
- On the following page, enter 'NULL' in each field <-- No such option
available.
- On the following page, enter 'NULL' in each field <-- No such option
available.


When I opened the Xerte toolkits page (http://localhost/toolkits/) I got the
following error messages:


Warning: mysql_select_db() [function.mysql-select-db]: Access denied for
user 'ODBC'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in
C:\xampp\htdocs\toolkits\config.php on line 36

Warning: mysql_select_db() [function.mysql-select-db]: A link to the server
could not be established in C:\xampp\htdocs\toolkits\config.php
on line 36


Any help is much appreaciated

Regards,


Costas Calcanis
E-Learning
Redbridge College


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