Posted by katy5289 on November 18, 2008 at 12:34am
Hello everyone,
I'm having trouble installing Drupal on my laptop with Windows Vista Home Edition. I have tried numerous times to install XAMPP and WAMP and have not had any success. I have also followed instructions I found on the Internet and installed each one of Apache/PHP/MySQL by itself. Is there anyone out there who has successfully installed Apache/PHP/MySQL server under Windows Vista Home Edition?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Katy :-)
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Drupal6 is running under Vista Home Edition
I changed back to my first administrative user account (I have two users with admin status on my laptop) and I have now successfully installed XAMP on my laptop. Acquia Drupal has installed and is working fine so far. I guess Vista didn't like it when I tried to install XAMP on another user account.
I searched online and many people had troubles installing XAMP on Vista Home Edition. Any one else have this problem? How did you solve it?
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I've had good success with VirtualBox
For Drupally stuff, I use VirtualBox to run an Ubuntu server that is configured w/ the LAMP stack (there is a checkbox option for this during installation). The downside is that some Linux system administration skills are required; the upside is that by the time you have it set up, you'd have learned much about server environments, which will provide an understanding of real-world deployments.
This may be overkill for some, but helps to keep the host OS light. As a bonus, snapshots of the virtual server can be used on other VirtualBox instances (for example, on another machine).