By tedjop on

Pardon me for my dumb question. But is Drupal 4.7.3 is available for installation on Windows XP?
I could not find the version for Windows.
Can somebody help clarify about this?
Thanks!
Sincerely,
Ted

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vm commented

you would install alocal host environment first . something like WAMP which includes Apache, PHP and MySQL, then install drupal into that environment.
WAMP can be found http://www.wampserver.com/en/ <- there
there are other pre bundled distros of these types of things WAMP is not the only one.

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sepeck commented

If you don't go the XAMMP or ApacheTriad route you can install IIS, MySQL and configure PHP for use on Windows XP. I will say getting PHP to work on IIS is a pain for experienced people much less a novice so I strongly urge you to consider XAMMP or ApacheTriad. That said, it's do-able but not many on the forums use IIS so support is limited by lack of experience.

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tedjop commented

Hi,
What I mean is, is the .tar.gz files that they provide for download is all we need?
Usually for download they provide own version for Windows, like .zip file.
But here in drupal just provide 1 download version which is .tar.gz file...
Thanks for clarifying..
Ted

vm’s picture

vm commented

.tar files can be untarred (unzipped) on a local machine using winrar.

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sepeck commented

You can use any number of programs to uncompress these files. WinZip, 7-Zip, WinRar. All these utilities will extract tar.gz files successfully and without issue.

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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piersonr commented

In the handbook there is a set of instructions on installing drupal on windows systems. The page called "Windows XP IIS development test system guidelines" has a pretty straightforward explanation.

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tedjop commented

Using 7-zip I was able to extract the tar.gz download file.
Thanks!
Now run into different problem. Here is the Drupal error message:

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Unable to connect to database server
This either means that the username and password information in your settings.php file is incorrect or we can't contact the MySQL database server. This could mean your hosting provider's database server is down.

The MySQL error was: Access denied for user 'username'@'localhost' (using password: YES).

Currently, the username is username and the database server is localhost.

Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
Are you sure that the database server is running?
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This is because I use wamp, which install MySQL, PHP and Apache at the same time, and wamp did configuration.
Anybody use wamp and probably can suggest me how to solve this so I can run Drupal?

Thanks again!

Sincerely,
Ted

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sepeck commented

http://drupal.org/Troubleshooting-FAQ

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Test site, always start with a test site.
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-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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