System Administrator's Guide/Installing Mahara/

1. Download the latest XAMPP software from https://www.apachefriends.org
2. Once downloaded, install the software by following the steps on the screen.
3. Once installed, make sure you have turned on Apache and MySQL from the XAMPP Control Panel

1. On your favorite browser, go to http://localhost and you should see the XAMPP welcome page.

1. Once your server is up and running with MySQL, we need to create a Mahara database. Head to http://localhost/phpmyadmin which should log you in to your mysql database . Once in, create a new database called 'mahara' having a collation of utf8_general

1. Clone the latest version of Mahara from https://github.com/MaharaProject/mahara.git

1. . The next step is to configure all the variables in the config-dist.php file. You need to complete this file with the values of your installation:

$cfg->dbtype = 'mysql5'; $cfg->dbhost = 'localhost'; $cfg->dbport = null; $cfg->dbname = 'mahara'; // this is the name of the mahara database $cfg->dbuser = 'root'; // this is usually the default user for the database administrator. $cfg->dbpass = ; If you have added a password to your root user, you should add the password here. $cfg->dbprefix = ;

You need to configure the paths for the wwwroot and dataroot directories with the values in your installation. In my case: $cfg->wwwroot = 'http://localhost/mahara/'; and $cfg->dataroot = 'C:\\xampp\\data'; (the double slashes are important).