Talk:Windows installation using XAMPP

Extaction of moodle files

When you extract the moodle files into the htdocs folder it does indeed create a moodle folder. However you seem to have to go to

http:\\localhost\moodle\moodle

to get the install.php to work (it says http:\\localhost\moodle in the guide)

I downloaded and installed the XAMPP package to my computer and actually got it working without any instructions. Problem is, now that I read the instructions, I wonder what on earth these instructions are for because the installation process looked virtually nothing like these instructions describe it. I mean what is the point of downloading this separate XAMPP stuff? I never knew I needed to download it and everything worked fine without this XAMPP thing. --N Hansen 10:45, 4 May 2006 (WST)

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Please see this reply to your post on this matter http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=43745&parent=206956

Feel free to update my comments on this page: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Complete_install_packages

Cheers

Ray

Page name

Hi Ray, please could you advise me if this page should be renamed "Windows installation using XAMPP". --Helen Foster 15:54, 5 May 2006 (WST)

Hi,

Yes this is the one. Sorry, I thought I'd done that successfully yesterday.

Ray

Nice work

I used this to walk me through the installation and it worked with no problems. The glitch I had was figuring out how to make Moodle see the database I created...but I did. You might address how to note the path when creating the database. This is an excellent guide for a someone with no server experience. I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this.