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#1 2008-01-03 08:24:56
- okie
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- Registered: 2008-01-03
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Newbie wondering how to manage folders.
Is there a way to install Textpattern on xampp without having to put the extracted files into the root xampp localhost folder C:/xampp/localhost/
?
So if I followed the Textpattern installation directions, I would have to extract the Textpattern files and folders (without the containing folder that has the version number in the name) into the the localhost folder overwriting Xampp index.php that already resides in the root, with the index.php used to install Textpattern.
I did do a successful install where I left both of the extracted folders intact, but that resulted in a long url (C:/xampp/localhost/textpattern-4.0.5/textpattern/ or a slightly shorter version with still too many folders as C:/xampp/localhost/txp/textpattern/
I have experimented with virtual hosts, and may go that way later. But is there a short easy workaround that someone else uses, who has gotten around the conflict between sharing the xampp localhost root with textpattern.
Thanks for your help. Textpattern already feels like it is flexible and intuitive.
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Re: Newbie wondering how to manage folders.
You don’t have to place the contents of the textpattern-4.0.5 directory at the root. If you create a subdirectory called “txp,” and place the contents of the textpattern-4.0.5 directory in it, then you’d access the site from http://localhost/txp/. Your directory structure would look like:
C:/xampp/
localhost/
txp/
.htaccess
index.php
files/
images/
textpattern/Virtual hosts will get you the shortest URLs though. I have my TXP install at ~/Sites/projects/src/txp (OS X), but I access the site with http://txp.dev.
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