By erikwesselius on

I submitted this problem already under a different heading.
See http://drupal.org/node/view/5366.

My question: Is there anybody out there who has installed drupal under windows succesfully???

Erik Wesselius

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Steven’s picture

Steven commented

Yup it works 100% fine here (Windows 2K, Apache+PHP+Mysql). I don't recall doing much special other than making sure PHP worked correctly and the databases and its permissions were set up correctly.

Try making a file info.php which contains:
phpinfo();

Point your browser at it to see if PHP is setup correctly. Make sure .htaccess is allowed in your httpd.conf.

erikwesselius’s picture

erikwesselius commented

maybe it's windows98 causing trouble?

php.info works fine, which comes as no surprise: phpMyAdmin also works perfect and lets me handle the (still empty) drupal SQL-base...

settings in my httpd.conf file:

AllowOverride All
AccessFileName .htaccess

As far as I understand it, this allows .htaccess

Anyhow, I still get:

error 403
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Apache/1.3.29 Server at localhost Port 80

with http://127.0.0.1/?q=user/register
as URL displayed in the browser window

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pz commented

I have drupal 4.3.2 and cvs-version running on win98, apache1.3, php4.3. With the cvs-version I have some problem (http://drupal.org/node/view/5164), but the 4.3.2 just works.

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ivar commented

I'm using win xp pro for my test installation, and had no difficulties. At what point are you stuck ?

erikwesselius’s picture

erikwesselius commented

mathias posted the breakthrough hint in the other thread.
My starting problems were solved after choosing the right settings for
document root and base url in Apache, PhP and Drupal.

Thanks!

Erik

The settings that work for me:

in php.ini
doc_root = "c:\phpWeb\drupal"

in apache httpd.conf
DocumentRoot "C:/phpWeb/drupal"
<Directory "C:/phpWeb/drupal">

in drupal conf.php
$base_url = "http://localhost"

Erik