Posted by mkmagu on January 8, 2011 at 6:52pm
I'm having a problem getting Drush to work on my PC, I uninstalled XAMPP and installed WAMP following the instructions in this video http://vimeo.com/15371661 I pretty much paused the video and went and did the steps shown. WAMP is up and running and if I type in Drush at the command prompt it does give the commands to use but when I type in the command to down load & install drupal-6.xx or 7.0 I get the following error "wget nor curl executables found". Per the video I have the following installed from GnuWin32 Wget, Tar, LibArchive, Gzip, BSDTar. I'm running windows 7 professional. Any Ideas on what might be wrong??
Thanks
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Path?
What a coincidence! I am writing about this topic right now for my book, Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers.
I didn't look through the whole video, but did you set the path to point to the GnuWin binaries? I set mine to
C:\drush\;C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\
Brian Travis
Author, Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers
Yes I did set it per the
Yes I did set it per the video but he did not say to put in the trailing slash \ does it make a difference?
Mary M.
Slash is optional
It should work with or without the slash, Mary. What happens if you type wget from the command line?
There is a new version of Drush, just posted yesterday. You might try that if you haven't already.
Brian Travis
Author, Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers
Possible solution
Hey Mary - I just went through the same process, and received the same result - I had actually mistyped and totally missed it. It took a colleague to point it out to me - I was too close to the situation. Take some time away from it and come back to it, maybe it will help to get away from it for a bit. Fresh eyes.
I'm interested, as a Windows user, to hear more about that book!
I'm at work right now when I
I'm at work right now when I get home I'll double check my settings and test the wget and see what happens. Just before I left to come to work I found out that Wamp would not start up. (:
Mary M.
I get the following when I
I get the following when I type in wget at the command prompt
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Mary>wget
SYSTEM_WGETRC = c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc
syswgetrc = C:\Program Files\GnuWin32/etc/wgetrc
wget: missing URL
Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...
Try `wget --help' for more options.
C:\Users\Mary>
Is there an additional configuration that needs to be done?
Mary M.
Looks like wget is working.
Looks like wget is working. To be sure, you need to enter a URL with a file. Try
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/views-7.x-3.0-alpha1.tar.gz
That'll download the views tarball. You can just delete the file afterwards.
Is your site working at all? That is, can you type http://localhost on a browser and see your site?
Brian Travis
Author, Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers
Wamp is working, I had xampp
Wamp is working, I had xampp on my system and had removed it but was not sure if it was a clean removal. I ended up doing a restore on my Windows 7 back prior to loading Xampp. I have Wamp up and running on a external hard drive I also have Drush on that same drive but it won't work even though I've gone through the steps a couple of times. Does both Drush & Wamp have to be on the C drive?
Mary M.
Yes - Wamp and Drush
I have both Drush and Wamp on C:\ - once you follow all the instructions on http://vimeo.com/15371661, restart your machine. Then open up the command prompt and type "drush" and you should see a list of available commands.
Wish this was mac/linux question...
Sorry I can't help more on this... Drush on Mac/Linux is actually quite easy to setup, and what Drush was "intended" to run on. Windows makes it tough... (Sorry Brian!!)
If we come around to question(s) on actually using it once it is setup right, I can likely help!! :)
Jake Strawn (@himerus)
ThemeGeeks | Development Geeks
Omega - 960.gs
Not so bad.
Setting it up is a pain, but once it's all set up, it works just fine for me. I completely understand re: wanting to run it on a Mac, but I'm glad that Windows users aren't shut out. Macs are pretty expensive for the average person, and Drupal is something everyone should be able to access and use. Using Wamp seemed to be the best route.
I plan on making the next Drupal event in Manchester; can't make the meetup tonight, I'm bummed! Mary - I don't know where you're from, but I'm sure if you brought your machine to the meetup that someone could figure it out in person - I know if I were there, I certainly would help you out, no problem!
My system is a dual boot for
My system is a dual boot for both W-7 & Ubuntu I was having problems getting the local server working in Ubuntu too. Let me go back to Ubuntu and see if I can get it going. See you at the meet up tonight.
Mary M.