Vista, Xampp and Moodle Installation Problem

Vista, Xampp and Moodle Installation Problem

by Ralf Hilgenstock -
Number of replies: 6
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Hi,

I tried last week to install Moodle on MS Vista, with Xampplite or Xampp and Moodle 1.7 and 1.8. In all combinations I got trouble while writing the config.php. The systems stopps without writing the config.php. I was logged in as admin on vista and had all rights to write file in the moodle folder.

The Moodle system works well after editing the confiog file manually. So I think its not a problem of Moodle, but in the rights management of MS Vista.

I checked the apachefriends /Xampp forum but didn't find any solutions. It seems that several features of xampp are not working under Vista (like portcheck).

If you have any idea whats the reason and a solution for this problems please post it here.

Ralf

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Re: Vista, Xampp and Moodle Installation Problem

by Douglas Peterson -
I have xampp running on Vista, but when I download Moodle, I can not get it installed. First of all it seemed to take forever to unzip, and then when it did, I got past the choose language, and the location pages, but then, I get a white screen with nothing on it, and a Done. There is nothing there....
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Re: Vista, Xampp and Moodle Installation Problem

by Douglas Peterson -

Just some background info:

Running latest Xampp, so Apache and MySQL on localhost

I am running it on a AMD Duo 4200 with a gig of RAM running Vista Home

At this point I am considering getting ride of VISTA, and rolling back to XPPro, or even Ubuntu Linux

I have it already running on an XPPro laptop, and it went much easier, and that machine is a Celeron with 1/2 a gig, and it went flawlessly.

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Re: Vista, Xampp and Moodle Installation Problem

by Jeff Wood -
Douglas,

I too have tried to install moodle on Vista. No luck 9directly).

I kept XP Pro and have a dualboot system. I installed moodle under XP and then ran it from Vista (after running xampp) and everything works well. big grin

Jeff

As an aside - Vista has many nice features... but I kept XP just in case.
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Re: Vista, Xampp and Moodle Installation Problem

by Ralf Hilgenstock -
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Hi Douglasd,

at first you have to be an admin in vista. Did your system stop at the same place like mine? (Creating the config.php).

I could work with vista without any further problems when I edited the config.php manually.
This is the way: rename the config-dist.php to config.php. Add your settings for database and the place for your moodle system on PC and the URLs.


Ralf
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Re: Vista, Xampp and Moodle Installation Problem

by ayseli aktas -

Hi Ralf en Douglas,

Did you seem to solve your problems with Vista? I am asking it because I am also trying to manage with this problem.

When I try to install moodle on my vista i get the following,

Choose language => english => next

Checking your PHP settings => passed => next

Please confirm the locations of this Moodle installation => next

and then a get a white page and nothing happens. while this is happening the xampp_start.exe turns to a empty black page.

I had installed moodle earlier on a xp and none of these happened then.

Can someone please help me smile

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