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Running Joomla / Civicrm on Windows XP / XAMPP
August 17, 2009, 03:52:02 pm
Hi,

I've got a test version of CiviCRM 2.2.7 on Joomla 1.5.13 running on XAMPP v2.5 on my Windows XP laptop.  Are there other folks who are running on Windows XP?  My impression is that running on Windows isn't really a supported configuration.  Is this true.

I'd be interested in discussing things I've seen with folks running in the Windows OS.

David

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Re: Running Joomla / Civicrm on Windows XP / XAMPP
August 17, 2009, 04:47:50 pm
no problems running on a WAMP server. just slow.
there's no special config really.
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Re: Running Joomla / Civicrm on Windows XP / XAMPP
August 17, 2009, 04:53:53 pm

i'd agree that WAMP is not a supported solution by the core team since none of us develop on a windows platform. I suspect this will not change in the near future.

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Re: Running Joomla / Civicrm on Windows XP / XAMPP
August 17, 2009, 04:59:19 pm
ok, so let me qualify my earlier post in light of Lobo's comments --

I have no problems running WAMP server on my local test server (my laptop). I would NOT be inclined to run WAMP/XAMPP on a live server.
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Re: Running Joomla / Civicrm on Windows XP / XAMPP
August 17, 2009, 07:19:07 pm
I've no plans to run Joomla/CiviCRM beyond as a test bed.  Since it's not officially supported, I was hoping to find or start a group (community seems too strong a word) of folks using Windows.  For example, I'm wondering why my icons aren't showing up.  The server I'm learning to support is running on Linux and doesn't have this problem (although I didn't install it).

So, should I just post in this topic or find a place on the wiki or ...?

Thanks for the quick responses,
David

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Re: Running Joomla / Civicrm on Windows XP / XAMPP
August 17, 2009, 07:46:26 pm
Hi,

I don't think your icons not showing up is a windows specific problems. I'm not quite sure what you mean but if I had to guess I'm say you haven't set your resource urls correctly. (there are about 3-4 different places where you configure directories/ urls etc - that probably is on the wiki).

The only thing you are likely to encounter that is windows specific is that standard windows paths may not work. ie. you may find that :

c:\\wamp\htdocs\www

OR

c:/wamp/htdocs/www

works

But not c:\wamp\htdocs\www

The reason is that a single slash can be treated by php as an escape character. I think I use 'nix style forward slashes in all my urls and have no problems.

The other possible error is a read only error when folders are set to read only. Windows doesn't use the read only folders flag but CiviCRM checks for it on install - causing some failures. Ideally I guess CiviCRM would only check on 'nix installs. There are a couple of items here about it and how to work around it.


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326549
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256614
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Re: Running Joomla / Civicrm on Windows XP / XAMPP
August 19, 2009, 04:47:34 pm
You were correct, the CiviCRM Resource URL was empty; filling it in makes everything look great.

Applause,
David

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Re: Running Joomla / Civicrm on Windows XP / XAMPP
September 14, 2009, 06:35:32 pm
Quote from: dwaroncon on August 17, 2009, 07:19:07 pm
I've no plans to run Joomla/CiviCRM beyond as a test bed.  Since it's not officially supported, I was hoping to find or start a group (community seems too strong a word) of folks using Windows.  For example, I'm wondering why my icons aren't showing up.  The server I'm learning to support is running on Linux and doesn't have this problem (although I didn't install it).

So, should I just post in this topic or find a place on the wiki or ...?

Thanks for the quick responses,
David

I am also testing it a windows platform and in WAMP. Got too much problem.

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Re: Running Joomla / Civicrm on Windows XP / XAMPP
September 14, 2009, 07:03:49 pm
I run my test server on WAMP and have only run into a few problems, and some were the result of antivirus locking up some temp directories that MySQL needed. What kind of issues are you having?
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Re: Running Joomla / Civicrm on Windows XP / XAMPP
September 14, 2009, 11:32:49 pm
Mine, i used it on AMP and so far i have no problem using it...
plus the fact that it is windows XP...
it's just a little bit slow but i can work on it... :D
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