Installing locally on Windows
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Revision as of 13:34, 23 June 2006
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
Save the file, close all your browser windows, and you're good to go. Pull up a browser, go to yourdomain.com/sohoadmin, and log-in!