Abe,
I've not used the XAMPP package, per se, but I have gotten
Joomla to work on my machine, using standard Mandriva packages,
and the Joomla download. Here are the directions I wrote for
myself and others, although I never found anybody to add it to
the twiki. It may or may not help, but I might as well get these
on the 'Net somehow :-)
Miark
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Installing Joomla! Content Management System
Install the MySQL database server
1) Become root: su
2) Install MySQL: urpmi --auto MySQL MySQL-client
3) Set MySQL to run at startup: chkconfig --add mysqld
4) Start MySQL: service mysqld start
Install a web server with PHP support
1) Install Apache web server with PHP support: urpmi --auto apache-mod_php
2) Install MySQL support for PHP and XML: urpmi --auto php-mysql php-mysqli
php-xml
3) Set Apache to start on boot: chkconfig --add httpd
4) Start Apache now: service httpd restart
Create a MySQL database for Joomla
1) Open MySQL client: mysql
2) Create an empty database for Joomla name "j": create database j;
3) Switch to MySQL's own database: use mysql;
4) Add Apache as a user: insert into user (user, host, password) values
(apache, localhost, apachesPass);
5) Give apache permission to use the new j database: grant all in j.* to apache;
6) Though UNRELATED, give root a password for security:
set password = password('rootsNewPass');
7) Exit with Ctrl-D
Get and install Joomla
1) Download the latest Joomla tarball from www.joomla.org (1.0.4 as of this
writing)
2) Change to the HTML directory: cd /var/www/html
3) Uncompress the Joomla untar xvzf /path/to/joomlaTarball
4) Give ownership of the Joomla files to Apache: chown -R apache.apache *
Configure Joomla
Point your browser to your web server (http://localhost) and follow
Joomla's configuration instructions. When prompted for MySQL settings,
use "localhost", "apache", and the password you you assigned to Apache
(not the one you set for root). Then continue to follow the on-screen
instructions to run Joomla and begin adding content.
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