[Xerte] Re: trouble installing Xerte on a mac

[Pat Lockley]

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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