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Thanks heaps for your advice. I'll hav a go...

is it possible to give domain name for http://localhost/joomla?

for example when i type http://mysite.com it would open up the http://localhost/joomla

hi there, im new to joomla.
i tried to follow waseem's instruction on: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,25954.0.html to setup joomla for local testing
unfortunately i am unable to proceed from step 1
as instructed i filled as below:

    * Host Name = localhost
    * MySQL User Name = root
    * MySQL Password = blank (don't put anything in this box)
    * MySQL Database Name = anyhting you like (eg joomladb)
    * MySQL Table Prefix = jos_ (this is set as default but you can change it)
    * Make sure that install sample data is ticked
    * Click "next"

But then i get a message saying "password and username provided are incorrect".

could anyone help me

Hi RS,

It sounds like you've set up a password for your database admin user, that's not a problem tho, just make sure you're using the same settings in this step:



You'll find the settings in the config.inc.php file of your wamp installation (ie C:\wamp\phpmyadmin)

the settings you're looking for are on lines 72 and 73 of that file:



Hope this helps!

Waseem

thanks waseem,
but I am not using a password, just leaving it blank.
still i get the message "password and username provided are incorrect"
any idea?

I'm not certain what could be causing that if your database username and password are as default - ie root and blank

Are you able to see the wamp homepage?

If so click the link for phpmyAdmin - if there is no password set up for the root user you'll see a big warning at the bottom of the page. If you don't see the warning then you must have a password set, check the file I referenced.

If none of that works then I'd try posting over at the wamp forums (try this link - http://www.wampserver.com/phorum/read.p ... 85&t=13685)

Waseem

Hi,
I followed your tutorial for hosting on a local pc for testing, etc. and it worked great.  I was  working away all day yesterday and shut off the computer as usual.  This morning it will nto pull up the site and says "could not connect to the database".  I have tried opening up the phpmyadmin panel, but my knowledge is very limited and usually I follow tutorials exactly - step by step to get something workign.  Is there a resaon that my database would work yesterday and today would not bring up the site?  Wamp says that everything is running.  Thanks.

I re-installed and found out that my database from yesterday did not even exist anymore.  Is there something I did or din't do that might have caused this to happen?

It seems likely that your PC has two installations of MySQL - and you
installed into one MySQL and today when you restarted the PC the
original MySQL is running and the db is not found.

You need to stop the MySQL service on your PC - then start the
one on your Wamp.  Or vice versa.

Chances are your original data from the Joomla install is in one or other of these two database services' databases
wampmysqld - the Wamp MySQL service
MySql  - the standard windows MySQL service

Type 'services.msc' into the run dialog box that appears when you go to 'Start' -> 'run'
Stop both services then start one - try wamp.
Then stop them and try the other mysql service.

Dean

If this is too far off topic let me know...

Can someone explain how to change permissions to files within WAMP running on a windowsXP machine?

I have a dev site locally on WAMP using the Simple Image Gallery plugin. The files associated with the plugin load with 666perms by default and I have been unable to change them so that the plugin will work.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
jaysunp

I got it all working on my first try, yay me!

But then my first attempt at actually changing something = failure!

I wanted to change the template to one of the ones i downloaded from one of the template sites.

And instead i got this error.



Im have no clue... any help ?

BTW, yes... im new at this.

@jaysunp:
File permisssions don't usually come into it on Windows machines - athough some of the later server operating systems this may happen.
If you get permission errors on windows it is more likely you have a path setting that is incorrect or a folder doesn't exist.


@ruven:
see this post from earlier in the thread - it should point you in the right direction:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg764784

Dean

Thanks Dean.... and thanks for all the other great help in this thread.
I just started last night but i see that youve helped quite a bit of people in the past.
Folks werent kidding when they said that the Joomla Community was top notch.

Hi. Thank you Thank you. I'm a newbee and this tutorial worked immediately, flawlessly .... now ... I'm studying "how to migrate to server"... Can you please clarify where you say:

"Tick all of: add DROP TABLE, add IF NOT EXISTS, add AUTO_INCREMENT value, Enclose table and field names with backquotes"

Did you mean "Tick all OFF???" Are you meaning I should UNCHECK the boxes for "add Drop Table", "add if not exists" and "add auto_increment value"???

Thanks so much for all the help, Anita

Hi Anita,

I meant the other way around, make sure all of those checkboxes ARE checked

Hope this helps,

Waseem

I want to say a big THANKS for your tutorial. After two days of reading posts, testing and retesting, I came upon your post and now problem solved. 

You're welcome Islandgrl

Glad to have helped another newbie board the Joomla train

Waseem

Thanks so very much.... I have successfully installed joomla on both a godaddy server and a freehostia free hosting site. Your tutorial was excellent. Anita

Hi Waseem,

I have followed all your steps and everything went perfectlly fine. Thank you so very much.

The only problem I'm having is not being able to test Mamboezine component. I installed the component with no problems what so ever, but when I tried to use it by adding the categories from the backend, I saw the names of the cats just like brackets (). The same component works fine on a live site. Any Idea?

Thank you again.

Hi Assyrian,

I'm afraid that I have no experience what-so-ever of the mamboezine component so wouldn't know where to start with this

Sorry

Waseem

Hi! I have done as instructed and everything works great, BUT

It seems my text that was in the jos_content table got screwed up.

The following symbol appears all over my content on my localhost:  Â

It seems it is replacing the apostrophe, but it also appears in other instances.

Here is an example taken from intro text on the live site that was part of the import into my localhost :

HORNETÂ BASEBALL GOLF TOURNAMENTÂ APPROACHES!

Hi Caltucker,

The symbol you're seeing is most likely due to the template you're using rather than the db. This is a common UTF-8 issue, if you search the forum you're bound to find the fix

Hope this helps,

Waseem

Hi Waseem!

I searched the forum and came up with nothing regarding that symbol, or what exactly you mean by UTF...

It seems that no matter which way I dump the database, it inserts these weird symbols into the data.

Does anyone have a suggestion on what I should do?

Should I dump the database, open it in a notepad application and find and replace all of those symbols? Or is there an easier way.

And, is the data being corrupted in another way, besides that symbol.

As far as templates, I use all Rocket Theme...