Is Zen Cart possible with Xampp on W98?

[PanicMode]

Is it really possible to install a trial Zen Cart in a 'localhost' virtual server, using Xampp version 1.5.4a on W98? I can't even get FileZilla up and running.
Has someone - anyone - got any ideas about this, 'cos I've got 6 days left out of 21 to set up a demo!!!

[TShooters]

You might try EasyPHP. I found it pretty
easy to use on Win98.

[PanicMode]

Thanks for prompt reply, Tshooters! I will go and do that.

[PanicMode]

Well ... I.ve done it!

I don't know whether to leap about like Smeagol in the Sammath Naur or just metaphorically pat your feet in adulation, Tshooter. Thanks a bunch!

I found the important thing was to ignore what the install text says about FTP and setting file permissions and just get on with it until the red notices go away.

One thing to note is that EasyPHP help is always just a left click away on the taskbar and that the phpMyAdmin control panel on the EasyPHP Administration page at 'http :// 127.0.0.1/home/' under the <manage database> link and will allow you to get a database up and running. Perhaps this is because, unlike Xampp, EasyPHP actually creates a default database for you when it first installs.

Anyway, thanks for that.

[TShooters]

That's great! Pretty cool, eh?
Thanks go to Kobra for pointing the program out to us some time ago.

[barco57]

I run xampp and the only problem I ever had was setting up virtual host, so that I could have the developments sites outside the xampp directory. I gave up on doing it that way. I just stick the zen cart directory in the htdocs directory in the xampp tree. I've done it so many times I can have xampp and a zen cart demo setup in 5 minutes.