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CrAzYHoSt
Help with Day 5

  • 2007/8/26 0:52

  • CrAzYHoSt

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On the XOOPSwiki site,http://www.xoopswiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Starting_a_New_XOOPS_Site I need help with Day 5. What exactly does it mean to type inhttp://localhost? What is it talking about. I have followed all of the directions there, and am stuck on this. Can anyone help me figure out what this means?
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Northern
Re: Help with Day 5

  • 2007/8/26 3:52

  • Northern

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  • Since: 2004/12/26


Your website url.

http://www. mysite .com

Quote:

Start your local server (Apache/MySQL - XAMPP in my case) and open your browser. Typehttp://localhost/ in your address bar and Go! You should get the first page of the XOOPS installation wizard. The screens should be familiar - they are the same ones you see when you looked at the install.html file in the /docs folder in your XOOPS installation package.
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davidl2
Re: Help with Day 5

  • 2007/8/26 12:05

  • davidl2

  • XOOPS is my life!

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  • Since: 2003/5/26


If you are using a local server, one based on your own machine (example as given is XAMPP), you will usehttp://localhost

Otherwise - you will use the url for the site.
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CrAzYHoSt
Re: Help with Day 5

  • 2007/8/26 18:58

  • CrAzYHoSt

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I am using XAMPP, but where do you puthttp://localhost in XAMPP? Do I put it in a broswer like FireFox? This is where I'm getting confused.
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Catzwolf
Re: Help with Day 5

  • 2007/8/26 19:31

  • Catzwolf

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My suggestion would to be dump Xampp and use WAMP5. It is very simple to use and should have you up and running from the start.

http:/localhost refers to the 'server' running on your computer and you should enter that in the browser url bar.

ATB

Catz
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vaughan
Re: Help with Day 5

  • 2007/8/26 19:40

  • vaughan

  • Friend of XOOPS

  • Posts: 680

  • Since: 2005/11/26


enterhttp://localhost in the url path in mainfile.php
then do the path to the xampp htdocs folder or where your XOOPS is located on your pc.

then you call your site by enteringhttp://localhost/ in your browser.

but that will only give you local access, it won't be accessible for other users on the internet, to do that you would need to use your IP & tell every1 everytime it changes. so if you want internet users to access, you need to setup a dns for your PC.

something like www.noip.com will do that.
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McDonald
Re: Help with Day 5

  • 2007/8/26 19:45

  • McDonald

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In XAMMP their exists a folder called htdocs. In htdocs you can create a folder in which you can dump the content of html.
Then start XAMMP by clicking the file xampp\xampp_start.exe.
Start your browser and typehttp://localhost/xampp/index.php
You should now get a XAMPP screen.
Select phpMyAdmin and create a database.
Now start your XOOPS site by entering the urlhttp://localhost/folder_name in the address bar.

See also Install XAMPP for easy, integrated development
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davidl2
Re: Help with Day 5

  • 2007/8/26 22:11

  • davidl2

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 4843

  • Since: 2003/5/26


A good alternative to XAMP or others is this:
https://xoops.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3848



(Although I expect Kris will be making a 2.0.17 update shortly )

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