To practice Moodle administration on my home PC, I have downloaded the zipped Moodle 1.9 files and unzipped them into the Moodle 19 directory which I created under Program Files. Then I have saved the config.php under Moodle 19. However, I do not know how to point to the installed Moodle in a web browser. How do you determine its IP address? Can you point to Moodle installed on the same machine? I am looking forward to your replies.
Regards
normally its just http://localhost this will go to the default web site of you web server installed on your computer normally IIS under windows
Are you using IIS or Apache? In IIS you need to point the IIS Default Website to your Moodle folder - this is if Moodle is the only website that you're running on the computer. Then you access moodle via http://yourcomputername or http://localhost
If you are running other websites on the computer then you need to create a new virtual directory for your Moodle website and point it to your Moodle folder. You'll access the Moodle site via http://yourcomputername/moodle or http://localhost/moodle (assuming you called the virtual directory "moodle").
Alternatively, if this is just a test machine (in other words, you're not using it for production) then you can use the Moodle for Windows package. This package contains Moodle plus all the other software needed to make Moodle run on Windows: Apache, MySQL and PHP. The disadvantage of using this package is that it doesn't teach you how to install Moodle the way that you would install it on a production server.
