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I did the zipped install to c:/xampp
Stared up Apache, MySql, and Mercury entered 127.0.0.1 in my browse got in everything running, Selected Security and did everything listed to secure XAMPP, MySQL, PhpMyAdmin, and Mecury Mail. I left PHP as is.

The following steps I’ve either picked up at the sites I’ll list at the end, or figured out myself during my last install. After making a change to each file stop and start your services, so you can find any typo’s or errors file by file. If you want until the end you’ll have to recheck everything.

I will be putting all my site files in c:/localsites and not the default c:/xampp/htdocs because I like to keep the site files separate from my XAMPP files. All the files from the htdocs folder must be copied into the folder your running your sites from. I’m putting those steps in blue so where you see the blue you either need to change my localsites to whatever folder your using, or skip the steps if your leaving it at the default, also anywhere I have localsites in my steps you’ll need to adjust the path to folder name you are using.

\xampp\Apache22\conf\httpd.conf

• change ‘Listen 80′ to ‘Listen 127.0.0.1:80′
• make sure Include cont/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf was unmasked (no# before the line)
• add install.php to the line DirectoryIndex inside the <IfModule dir_module> tag
• changed DocumentRoot to “/localsites” (XAMPP defaults to htdocs)
• <Directory “/xampp/htdocs”> to <Directory “/localsites“>
• Unmask LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so to allow for clean urls

stopped and started services everything shiny!

\xampp\Apache22\conf\extra\httpd-ssl.conf

• change ‘Listen 443′ to ‘Listen 127.0.0.1:443′

stopped and started services everything shiny!

\xampp\phpMyAdmin\config.inc.php

• make sure $cfg[’Servers’][$i][’auth_type’] = ‘cookie’;

Shiny!

xampp\apache\bin\php.ini

• removed the ; from the mcrypt.dll line

Shiny!

xampp\appache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf add the follow to the end of this file

• NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80
• (for xampp)
  <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
  ServerName localhost
  DocumentRoot /localsites
  </VirtualHost>
• (for drupal)
  <VirtualHost sitenameyourusing:80>
  ServerName sitenameyourusing
  DocumentRoot /localsites/drupal-5/ you only need one folder for drupal, no matter how many sites you run
  </VirtualHost>
• (for wordpress)
  <VirtualHost sitenameyourusing:80>
  ServerName sitenameyourusing
  DocumentRoot /localsites/folderyouputwordpressin/ each wordpress installation needs it’s own folder
  </VirtualHost>
  each site needs it’s own virtual host

windows\system32\drivers\ect\hosts
add the following lines to the end of the file

• If it isn’t already there add 127.0.0.1 localhost
• 127.0.0.1 sitenameyourusing
  you one line for each site your running locally

That’s it for the XAMPP part, or at least for tonight, I’ll pick this up tomorrow when I run the installs. I’m going to try having a sync’d site following the steps from Urban Giraffe again… tomorrow.

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