Talk:Windows installation using XAMPP

Notes--Chris collman (talk) 22:18, 28 October 2015 (AWST) on XAMPP on Windows 10 with Moodle

Will erase these later.

Issues with straight install of XAMPP on Windows 10

Windows 10 has a program that uses port 80 (new version of IIS which Sharepoint uses). XAMPP's default port is 80, so there is a conflict. My solution is to change XAMPP's port. I use 181. So to reach moodle the long address in the browser is 127.0.0.1:181/moodle. I also had some issues with MySQL. Phpmyadmin worked fine.

solutions

• I used the control.exe file in the XMAPP folder to start Apache and MySQL.
• In this program, I used the config button for Apache to get to httpd.conf. Around line 60 or so, there are some Listen lines of code. I put a # in front of the activate one and created a new line Listen 127.0.0.1:181.
• I saved the file.
• I used the config button for MySQL to get to the my.ini configuration file for MySQL. I noted the port. It showed 3306.

Using XAMPP to download latest version of Moodle

• I noticed on the splash screen for XAMPP (in my case 127.0.0.1:181/xampp) there was a sections that said "Install applications on XAMPP using Bitnami". I clicked on the Moodle icon. It offered me the chance to download Moodle 2.9.2.
• It downloaded a 36 mg excutable file on my computer and I let it run.
• Later I found that it loaded a copy of moodle in a subfolder called apps.