xampp on S Anand

Install Mediawiki

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:30:17 +0000

Once you’ve installed XAMPP, download MediaWiki and unzip it into your xampp/htdocs folder. You may need 7-Zip to extract tar.gz files. Rename the mediawiki folder to wiki.

You’ll first need to create a database, which you can do by visiting /phpmyadmin/ on your localhost, typing in the database name and pressing ‘Create’.

Now go to /wiki/ and fill out the form. Make sure you select “Use superuser account” since you haven’t really created a user for your database.

Click on the “Install Mediawiki” button, and you should have a wiki.

Comments

ankur 15 Jul 2010 10:01 pm: how did you change the version of PHP, i get : PHP 5.3.1 is not compatible with MediaWiki due to a bug involving reference parameters to __call. Upgrade to PHP 5.3.2 or higher, or downgrade to PHP 5.3.0 to fix this. ABORTING (see http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50394 for details)

Install Wordpress

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:26:58 +0000

Once you’ve installed XAMPP, download Wordpress and unzip it into your xampp/htdocs folder.

You’ll first need to create a database, which you can do by visiting the /phpmyadmin/ on your localhost, typing in the database name and pressing ‘Create’.

Now go to /wordpress/, click the buttons and fill out the form. Type in 'root' for the database username and leave the password blank. Select any password you want for the administrator account. You can now log in with this administrator password and log into the Wordpress dashboard.

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Install XAMPP

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:23:29 +0000

I’ve been going around setting up open source software a fair bit recently. To minimise the pain of explaining it, I’m putting together a short videos that explain the process.

Here’s the first, on XAMPP, which is a starting point for most open source applications. It bundles Apache (web server), MySQL (database), Perl and PHP.

To install it, search and download “XAMPP for Windows”, and press enter for every question. Then install your application under C:\xampp\htdocs. That’s it.

Comments

Chandoo 14 Jul 2010 11:32 am: Good one.. Recently I had to install XAMP (no need for Perl, yet..) and I went with Windows Platform Installer. Found it much more simple and easy… http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx

Portable Apps

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:17:24 +0000

I’m totally hooked to portable apps now. You don’t need admin rights to install them. You can run them off a USB stick. They won’t make your machine slower. All the reasons not to install an application vanish.

PortableApps.com is a good starting point. For what it’s worth, here are my portable apps by category (most used on top).

Platforms

Firefox. If you’re using IE6, please die. Lack of admin access is no longer an excuse.
Cygwin brings you UNIX commands to Windows.
Portable Ubuntu run Ubuntu as a window in Windows.

Tiny utilities

GDI++ replaces the Windows font engine with a Mac-line rendering. Looks cool.
Clip is a command line tool that copies to clipboard. “dir | clip” copies the file listing to the clipboard. Outrageously useful.
PicPick takes screenshots of the screen, windows, regions, whatever. And you can edit them too.
uTorrent downloads torrents.
WinDiff compares two files and tells you the difference.
AlwaysOnTopMaker makes any window stay on top of other windows.
DiskTT tells you your hard disk (or USB stick) speed.
WinHTTrack downloads websites.
AllChars lets you type special characters like ½ by type Alt-1-2 or “ by Alt--. It’s shockingly intuitive.
Restoration lets you undelete permanently deleted files.
Windirstat tells you what’s taking up space on your disk.
Sysinternals is a bunch of system monitoring utilities.
Virtual CD-ROM mounts .ISO files. You can use .ISO files without burning them.
Autostitch stitches together photos to create panoramas.

Media

VLC plays any audio or video file.
TightVNC lets you log into other machines like a remote desktop./li>
Audacity lets you record and edit audio.
CamStudio lets you record video (screen capture).
VirtualDub lets you edit video.
MediaCoder converts audio and video from any format to another.
GIMP is like Photoshop. You can edit pictures.
Inkscape lets you edit vector graphics.

Servers

XAMPP installs Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl at one shot.
App Engine is Google’s freemium platform for app hosting.
Persevere is a RESTful JSON app server that runs on Java.
Tomcat is a JSP server.
nginx is a fast web server
CouchDB is a RESTful JSON app server that runs on Erlang.

Development tools

Notepad++ is my current text editor. It has syntax highlighting, column editing, Unicode support, auto-completion, and is fast and free. So I dumped Crimson Editor.
Putty is SSH for Windows.
Tidy cleans up HTML files.
CSSTidy cleans up CSS files.
Processing is a graphical programming language.
Wireshark monitors network traffic.
Drip checks IE for leaks.
NVDA is a free screen reader.

Let me repeat:

You don’t need admin rights to install these.
You can run them off a USB stick.
They won’t make your machine slower.

There’s really no reason whatsoever not to have them on a USB stick at least. They’re cheap.

Comments

Naveen 19 Jan 2010 9:34 am: I have been using portableapps for more than an year now.Though the idea is to run it off a USB stick, this results in poor performance usually, especially for firefox.
Ganapathy 13 Feb 2010 5:47 pm: I landed in your site for analyzing IR songs. The collection of applications in www.pendriveapps.com seems to better than PortableApps.com (my personal opinion).