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hi all,

i am a beginner to PN and have been trying to find some decent documentation on PN installation for windows XP. I would like to try PN on XP first and then try it on linux.

I have a windows XP machine with no SQL, no IIS or Apache and of course no PN. If I could get some help in the installation process, I would be very grateful.

Thanks in advance,
ag

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To install PN you first need to have configured a web server with PHP and mysql. It's beyond the scope of this forum to teach the skills required to setup a full web server with PHP and mysql. You'd need to read the installation documentation that comes with each product

There are also a number of simple windows installers for the three like xampp, easyphp etc. Not sure of the quality of any of these as I have no experience with any of them.

Like I say it's beyond the scope of this forum (and postnukes documentation) to help setup a server.

-Mark

If you want setup a local server and you have no expierience BigApache will be the best solution for you.

You only need to install the package and everything you need to run PostNuke is included.

Here you can download the widows installer :

http://www.bigapache…230c792cdfab36b#150

Lindbergh

I had a great deal of success with apache2triad. http://sourceforge.n….php?group_id=93507. It comes whith PHP and phpMyAdmin (for mysql database administration) pre-installed.

Don't go for the latest version though because I recall it being based on PHP 5.0 which may still be a little new for PostNuke. Apache2triad 1.2.3 is the one I am currently using on my XP laptop. As I was travelling over the Christmas break, I wanted to take my development on the road so I installed apache2triad. I run multiple virtual hosts on the latop so that I can develop for multiple domains at once.

The default install will give you a web root of http://localhost/ located at c:\apache2triad\htdocs. (you can use this as the top level directory for a PostNuke install).

If you want to setup virtual host you'll need to edit your http.conf file and add virtual host entries for each development/test domain. This is a sample virtual host entry that will go in the c:\apache2triad\conf\http.conf file:



For the above example create a directory c:\apache2triad\virtual\mydomain.onroad.

For very noddy name resolution edit your windows "hosts" file C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and edit the localhost line as follows:



You'll then be able to type http://mydomain.onroad/ as a valid address in your web browser. This is adequate for development of multiple sites on a single XP box provided you don't want to access them from another machine.

Normally I develop sites on a linux-based server at home. I use samba to access the document root directories of the development domains on the linux server so that I can use development tools (HTMLkit) on my XP laptop.

I might give BigApache a try once I have finished development of the sites that are still being completed on my laptop. I've used sokkit in the past but moved over to apache2triad.