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

[ALFO]

As mentioned before run Portchecker and check what it says is using Port 80.

If anything but Apache is using it then it will not start.

[khopek]

AHHH I didn't see that....says inetInfo.exe is using port 80....

[ALFO]

I turned off IIS Admin in the Computer Services page - not saying another program might eventually have a problem with this but.....- freed up the port.

[khopek]

I had to stop IIS as well...I'm also running MicrosoftPOS that runs it's own SQL server. I have to pause that to work on the test site, or things get a bit wacky...

[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

[shrfriend]

After much confusion and hair pulling ................

............Click "Save Database Settings " and you should see all the pretty ~'s scrolling across the screen.


Till here all things goes well even i got error "CURL not compiled into PHP - notify server administrator' after i accept license.

Till system setup it is working but when i comes on phpBB setup, i choose "Choose whether you want to use the phpBB forum or not" with "no" options and click on "save phpBB Settings"

After that i i just see blank page, and i am not able to setup store setup.

Please help !.

I am runing Xampp 1.5.1 in windows xp sp-2

[pbirk]

Hi,

I have followed the wonderful steps in installing the zen cart, but I am running into an issue. I get the following message when I type the address http://localhost/zencart/ into my explorer:

Hello. Thank you for loading Zen Cart™.
You are seeing this page for one or more reasons:
This is your first time using Zen Cart™ and you haven't yet completed the normal Installation procedure.
If this is the case for you, you will need to upload the "zc_install" folder using your FTP program, and then run zc_install/index.php via your browser (or reload this page to see a link to it). Not Sure how to do this as when I try to load the index.php in the browser it opens dreamweaver with a blank document

Your /includes/configure.php and/or /admin/includes/configure.php file contains invalid path information and/or invalid database-connection information.
If you recently edited your configure.php files for any reason, or maybe moved your site to a different folder or different server, then you'll need to review and update all your settings to the correct values for your server.

I have downloaded a few version of Zen Cart and can't find the file configure.php in the admins folder are anywhere. It seems to be missing. Any suggestions?

Thanks Peter

[llnavs]

Peter-

Type in http://localhost/zencart/zc_install/. That should bring up the install screen and just reinstall zencart.

[francesca_ph]

Dear Zenners,

i have been searchin for the ans for motnhs!!! and i finally found it here!!!!
however while i was installin zen cart, it says i do not have 'curl' will that be an issue?

also, what is my DB's password and user name as I did not create it in xampp under phpadmin?