Installing and upgrading help

Hi Baris,

It may help if you post some more precise details of your setup:

• Are you installing for test purposes on a local machine?
• What is your os?
• What installation package are you using?

I will make some assumptions, and offer some advice based on them. When you call your site in a browser, because there is no config.php file, the installation script kicks in and tries to create one. To do this, it needs certain information, including where your database lives (is it on the same machie you are testing on?), and what username and password should it use to connect to the database.

If you are using an all in package, chances are that the database is running on localhost, and (FOR LOCAL TESTING PURPOSES ONLY), you should be able to use 'root' as the username, and no password to connect to it.

You mentioned you tried this with xampp. If this is so, you should be able to type in http://localhost/xampp into your browser and reach the xampp window. On the left somwhere down the page, there should be a link to phpmyadmin, which you can click. There you will get to a window that allows you to create a new database. Call it moodle.

Assuming you have dropped your moodle folder into the htdocs folder, then your entry for $CFG-> should read:

$CFG->wwwroot = 'http://localhost/moodle';

This is only good for local testing, as if you are on a network and you try to view your site from another machine, there will be problems. These are easily solved, but let's get things working locally first.

If the newly installed xampp folder ended up on your c drive, then the entry for your $CFG->dirroot should read:

$CFG->dirroot = 'c:\xampp\htdocs\moodle';

If you placed the newly created moodledata folder directly on to your c drive, then the $CFG->dataroot entry should read:

$CFG->dataroot = 'C:\moodledata';

Don't forget to share the moodledata folder, so that apache can read and write to it.

If all my assumptions (guesses) are correct, then the attached config.php file should work for you. Drop it into your moodle folder, and call your site in a browser. Two screenshots of xampp and phpmyadmin here, but your setup may be different.

BG,

Just to add to what MM said:

I have looked at the source code of the script that says it will try to create a db. There I found comments that say that the script contains code to try to do that, but it doesn't work. That's why the instructions tell you to create an empty db before running the installation script.

Anyway, you say it doesn't do what it claims. Read your own post carefully: "if u dont create one, installer will try to create it". So it only claimed it would try to create it. It never promised that it would succeed.

Hopefully MM's post will help you to create your db. It is one of several ways to do that.

RLE