Setting up Zen Cart on Windows XP using Xampp - a howto

[wasana]

This thread was incredibly helpful and easy to follow. It's been over six months since I did any Zenning and I was dreading things - now I'm all charged up! Thanks.

hint for the challenged - rename the zc-install and for includes/configure just right click the file - properties - read only (this will probably be located C:\xampp\htdocs\<your_store_name>)

The Zen - eStart book is on the way but now I don't have to wait!!

life is good!

[Briank58]

You are more than welcome! Thank You

[jund]

It's great to see folks having fun...
May I intrude with a question?

CURRENT CONFIG
I already have a ZEN CART store hosted on a Windows platform using IIS Server 6.0. I bought THE book when it was first released... and it is one of the best user/developer/ document I have ever purchased.

MORE DETAILS
I have decided to assist a friend in developing his web site. He is using an Apache server -
I have the latest Apache/PHP/MySQL combo as my localhost for port 80; however, I do not use it for the ZEN-CART web site previously mentioned - because it is on an IIS server.

THE book says to use an earlier version of XAMPP - and before installing it, UNINSTALL the current Apache Server/PHP/ etc.

I respect the book, and he states in the book to use xampp-win32-1.4.16-installer.exe because the current version of ZEN-CART (1.3.7) cannot utilize the latest version of xampp.

QUESTION:
Can I use the latest version of XAMPP now? Will 1.3.7 work with the latest updates using the latest version of XAMPP? I will uninstall Apache, PHP, etc per GHK - I truly respect him and his advice - but, for me it seems that it would be smarter to install the latest version of XAMPP, provided it will work.

What is the consensus? (or is that conZENsus ) of opinions?

Respectfully,
jund

[godspeed27]

He wrote the book off of 1.3.7...that being so, I am sure what he says to use to run it was based off the advice of the zen cart team.

You could also pm him and ask him his advice, he posts on this forum.

[jund]

Thanks godspeed27
jund

[dravekx]

Thats a quick guide without the details because there's nothing about curl support which is a major issue on installation.

[DrByte]

XAMPP is never intended to run a live server. Your choice to do so is contrary even to apachefriends.org's recommendations to avoid such use.

Nevertheless, if you want CURL support, just enable it in your php.ini.
And SSL as well.

Since you're going to ask "how", just uncomment these lines:

;extension=php_curl.dll
;extension=php_openssl.dll

...so they look like this:

extension=php_curl.dll
extension=php_openssl.dll

And restart the apache service afterward.

[ckosloff]

That is precisely my doubt and the subject of a recent post.
I cannot understand why he recommends an earlier version which, incidentally, did not work for me.
I could never get that version of Xampp to run Apache, even after opening port 80 both TCP and UDP.
What I got instead running was...IIS.
I uninstalled Xampp, disabled IIS, and loaded wamp5 (thanks to user Get 'em fast, read post).
Great performance!!
It doesn't have a mail server, though, but it works beautifully.
Now my problem is how to install Zen Cart and mail test accounts on that server, but should be pretty easy.

[cochlear]

Does XAMPP come with mod rewrite (for SEO URL)?

[jund]

That is precisely my doubt and the subject of a recent post.
I cannot understand why he recommends an earlier version which, incidentally, did not work for me.
I could never get that version of Xampp to run Apache, even after opening port 80 both TCP and UDP.
What I got instead running was...IIS.
I uninstalled Xampp, disabled IIS, and loaded wamp5 (thanks to user Get 'em fast, read post).
Great performance!!
It doesn't have a mail server, though, but it works beautifully.
Now my problem is how to install Zen Cart and mail test accounts on that server, but should be pretty easy.

Thanks for the latest Post - I was completely unaware of the support Cucumber provides... you made my day!
Respectfully,
jund