[pmwiki-users] Installation Problem

Mon Jan 5 02:02:57 CST 2015

http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Installation
is also useful

as may be
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Category/Install

On 3 January 2015 at 07:12, ABClf <languefrancaise at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bravo ;)
> You can play with PmWiki now.
>
> Next step is working on the basics of your config.php (name of the site,
> how you like to stock files and images – per group, per site or per page –,
> utf8, localization if you want to change language, enable uploads, set up
> the time format you prefer (ddmmyyy, yyyymmdd, ...), etc).
> (There is no config.php file in the PmWiki installation : you have to
> create it by yourself in a texteditor.)
>
> See http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/InitialSetupTasks for quick
> explanation.
>
> By default, you are redirected to $DefaultPage, which is by default :
> $DefaultGroup.$DefaultName ;
> you may like to change that behaviour later (
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/BasicVariables).
>
> Gilles.
>
> 2015-01-02 18:02 GMT+01:00 Ron <RBelcher3 at charter.net>:
>
>>  Thank you! Thank you! The relocation of the pmwiki code to
>> c:\xampp\htdocs\pmwiki\ seems to have done the trick. I access it at
>> http://localhost/pmwiki/pmwiki.php. It redirects to *that*?n=Main.HomePage.
>> Clearly, I have much to learn.  Your help is much appreciated.  I will
>> probably be back!
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>> On 01/02/2015 02:33 AM, ABClf wrote:
>>
>>  Control where your PmWiki folder is located : should be in htdocs.
>> In my case, local website is "quinze" :
>> d:\xampp3\htdocs\quinze\
>>  I meet pmwiki at http://localhost/quinze/pmwiki.php
>>
>>  You can check php running by going to : http://localhost/
>> should be redirected to : http://localhost/xampp/ ; find a shorcut for
>> phpinfo.
>>
>>  Gilles.
>>
>> 2015-01-02 3:25 GMT+01:00 Ron <RBelcher3 at charter.net>:
>>
>>> XAMPP 5.6.3 is installed and running. XAMPP's Status button says PHP is
>>> "ACTIVATED".
>>>
>>> The XAMPP Control Panel v3.2.1 says Apache is running on ports 80, 443.
>>>
>>> I would be happy to verify that PHP is running if you can suggest a way
>>> to do it, from either the Firefox browser address line or from a Windows
>>> command window.
>>>
>>> I also tried running, on the Firefox address line, "
>>> http://localhost/pmwiki/pmwiki-2.2.71/pmwiki.php".  That resulted in an
>>> Error 404, "Object not found!".
>>>
>>> Also, thank you for the suggestions for shared hosting, but I really
>>> want this running on my target machine.  The installation on my machine is
>>> a practice run.  My intention after I learn how and get it running, is to
>>> run it on our church's office machine for use by our Fellowship.
>>>
>>> Any other ideas?
>>>
>>> By the Way - I am new to the pmwiki users forum.  I did not see any way
>>> to post a followup to the two replies I received, so I am trying by
>>> forwarding one of them to the email address.  That does not seem to me like
>>> the best way, but maybe it is.  Any instruction you would care to offer
>>> would be most welcome.
>>>
>>> Ron
>>>
>>> On 01/01/2015 07:41 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, As has already been stated, you need a web server running php in
>>>> order to test on a local machine.  You can install it all yourself if you
>>>> want, but unless you are on a very very tight budget, some shared hosting
>>>> for 2 to 5 dollars a month will save you infinite grief.  If you already
>>>> have hosting, then you can upload pm wiki to a space on your host without
>>>> impacting anything that is already there as long as you leave the root
>>>> pmwiki folder.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Erik
>>>> On Dec 29, 2014, at 2:48 PM, Ron <RBelcher3 at Charter.net>
>>>> <RBelcher3 at Charter.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  I downloaded http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-2.2.71.zip and
>>>>> extracted it to C:\pmwiki\pmwiki-2.2.71.  I then navigated my Firefox
>>>>> browser to that folder (file:///c:/pmwiki/pmwiki-2.2.71) where I
>>>>> clicked on pmwiki.php.
>>>>>
>>>>> The result was "File not found" and "Firefox can't find the file at
>>>>> /c:/pmwiki/pmwiki-2.2.71/$pageurl."
>>>>>
>>>>> This was done on a Windows 7 system.  What am I doing wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>>
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