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

[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.

[tlyczko]

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.

I am back with ZC after a long absence and re-learning ZC.

I did both of the above on localhost to try to get rid of the error messages, and they still appear.

Anything I can do?? (I don't absolutely need curl on localhost, I would just like to know how to make this work!!)

Thank you, Tom

[tlyczko]

I got ZC working just fine by setting the various IIS services to manual and stopping them before installing the most current Xampp.

No other issues with the ZC install other than the above-mentioned Curl thing.

:) tom