Xampp 1.5 newbie = help needed

  • Inspired by Podz’ very clear-looking instructions (https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/) I’m attempting to install Xampp & WP1.5 from scratch & with no prior knowledge of servers or blog software… All was going well until I got to:

    “Start your Xampp setup by clicking the orange ‘xampp_start.exe’.

    When I clicked, Firefox opened with a big Xampp logo and “file:///C:/apachefriends/xampp/install/start.html” in the address bar. But there was no sign of the promised left sidebar or phpmyadmin logo.

    Any ideas where I may have gone wrong?

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  • Try going here ? https://localhost/xampp/

    Thread Starter hillbilly

    (@hillbilly)

    Wow, that was a quick response! Thanks podz. I’ve now tried https://localhost/xampp/ & get the following message: “The connection was refused when attempting to connect to localhost”.

    In that case go to the xampp dir, and click the ‘setup_xampp.bat’ file, then the start_exe, then the localhost in your browser.

    Thread Starter hillbilly

    (@hillbilly)

    When I clicked ‘setup_xampp.bat’ a black screen popped up saying: “Sorry but nothing to do – click any key to continue” So I did. I then tried both https://localhost/xampp/ and https://localhost/ and got the “Connection refused…” message.

    By the way, going back a step in your instructions (4. Note where your index.php is), I didn’t know where to find index.php. Could this be pertinent?

    Thread Starter hillbilly

    (@hillbilly)

    Podz – The weirdest thing has just happened. Having read the topic/thread “Can’t load index.php” above, I decided to try “localhost/index.php” in the addressbar.

    So I went to xampp dir, clicked on start.exe & lo & behold, before I could type in the new address, the sidebar appeared & the addressbar read localhost/index.php, although I hadn’t actually changed it!

    Anyway, next hurdle: Having clicked on phpmyadmin I get error message 2003, which MySQL site describes thus:

    Error: 2003 (CR_CONN_HOST_ERROR)
    Message: Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘%s’ (%d)

    Any ideas? Am turning in now, will check back in the morning.

    I haven’t ever seen that error with xampp. Have you checked out their faq and their (fairly small) English forum ?

    “The connection was refused when attempting to connect to localhost”

    Do you have “skype” or any proxy sw installed? .. if you do.. try kill it.

    Also let Apache.exe pass throught firewall sw ..if you have any.

    Run xampp_start again.

    Thread Starter hillbilly

    (@hillbilly)

    I’ve sorted out the firewall & don’t have any proxies (I think). So I clicked xampp_start, got the sidebar & decided to check “XAMPP Status”. It said MySQL database& FTP Service were deactivated. How do I fix these? I really appreciate all your help.

    Which xampp package have you downloaded? the *.exe or *.zip?

    For easy & clean … download xampp-win32.xxx.zip and and unzip it to c:\xampp.

    Just be sure & safe, uninstall previous xampp and remember to take backup your htdocs.

    Thread Starter hillbilly

    (@hillbilly)

    Hi Noname: The xampp version was neither of those you mention but the Installer one (“Easy and safe: XAMPP with a comfortable installer,” according to Apachefriends).

    Before I go any further I should perhaps ask “safe from what?” What are the dangers I should be aware of?

    What OS do you have ?
    XP Home should be fine
    XP Pro will cause problems unless you stop IIS

    Thread Starter hillbilly

    (@hillbilly)

    I’m using XP Home.

    I’m very impressed with xampp. I backed up from my host and restored a local copy of 1.2.2 and the database following Podz excellent instructions. It will be useful for 1.5 migration. When I’ve tested 1.5 out thoroughly, are there any issues to watch for in reversing the process i.e. upload the local working copy of 1.5 and database (latest) to the host? Now I can run WordPress locally for testing/evaluation/tweaking, I’d much prefer to work that way.

    Thread Starter hillbilly

    (@hillbilly)

    Mikep: That’s exactly why I’m trying to get xampp to work on my system, but being totally new to apache, mysql & php I need very detailed step-by-step instructions….

    Podz: Having looked on the apachefriends forum & faq I decided I needed to find mysql_start.bat. The nearest I could find was mysql_installservice.bat, so I double-clicked & it told me the service had started successfully….but after xampp_start I still got the error message + Mysql “Deactivated”

    So, I went to MySqlManager/MySql and found a registration form. As the default settings appeared to be correct I clicked Register. I tried xampp_start again but still no joy. (I did, however, get a traffic light icon in my taskbar which turned out to be WinMySqlAdmin1.4, which looks very useful but I can’t do anything with it at this stage)

    It seems to me there must be one fundamental step which I’ve missed out which anyone with any experience would do automatically…

    hillbilly: this is what works for me. Click the xampp control panel icon or browse to c:\apachefriends\xampp\xampp-control.exe and click that. Then in the panel, start apache, start mysql. Then fire up browser to https://127.0.0.1 All should be well. Follow Podz’ instructions when setting up a copy of WordPress. I dumped a working copy of WP from my host, restored that under htdocs. Also dumped the database and restored. Do all the changes Podz mentions to the SQL (before restoring) and wp-config. It will work.

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