Installing locally on Windows

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Introduction

Here's the rough basics for installing a copy of Pro Edition on your local PC (running Windows XP). Hopefully this page will grow in detail as time allows.

Install PHP/MySQL

You can install Apache too or run PHP/MySQL for IIS. Highly-reccommended and wonderfully-easy way to do this: go grab xampp.

Give your local server a domain name

Pick a domain name (preferrably one that you actually control and could run a live site on if you wanted to) and add an entry to your Windows hosts file.

Your 'hosts' file (it doesn't have a file extension) should be here:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Open your hosts file in your text/code editor of choice (windows notepad will work too) and add this line... 127.0.0.1 yourdomainname.com

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