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Okay...

I have xampp running fine, and I put my brand new (Yeah!!! )  joomla1.0.0 files under htdocs/www. When I open the browser for a web installation, I get:


As per http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=12800&page=1&pp=10, I changed to in
1. xampp\xampp\php\php4\php.ini
2. xampp\xampp\php\php.ini
3. xampp\xampp\php\php5.ini, and
4. xampp\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini .

I confirmed the presence of a tmp directory, c:xampp\xampp\tmp.  Can anyone tell me how to change permissions to 777 here? 

I also went to xampp\xampp\htdocs\forbidden\.htaccess and added

Still no workey.  I clear my cache, and click refresh and click the web installer button "check again", but no change.

Many thanks in advance.

Weird.  I did the same, in xampp/htdocs/joomla and it went like a hot knife through warm butte....

Huh.  Well, I never got the front page of the joomla web installer to indicate that I had a writeable save session path, but I ended up continuing on to the next page of the installer in spite of that, and it seemed to install okay.  Thanks.

I had that same "problem" under a previous version of Mambo using XAMPP.  I ignored the warning and things went fine.

Glad it worked for you.

Chay,

I know that you said that you went on, and you were fine, but that was after you made the changes to your php.ini files, right?  I am not sure if you tried to stop and restart Apache and MySQL after you changed the php.ini files, but I know that when I clicked 'Check Again,' after I made the changes, Joomla still said my tmp files were unwriteable, until I restarted Apache and MySQL.  You probably had tried that, but for dumb people like me that try to edit the php.ini files while the server is running, they may think it didn't work.  Once I restarted Apache and MySQL, then the pre-check turned out just fine.  Thought I would add this.

Charles

It worked for me too .. i just ignored the warning .. and everything went fine .. wonder why?

I am also having a problem with sessions or I guess I should say logging in to joomla running xampp.
I am running 2000, xampp, Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7c PHP/4.3.10/mysql 4.1.12
hosts file is modified and I am running virtual hosts off the apache.
such that my installation of joomla is http://www.joomla.home
my iusr_xxxmachinename is modifiable and my php.ini is setup correctly.
During installation of joomla everything looks good. by good I mean everything is green. After the install everything looks good til I try to login.
I know that sessions work with this setup if you use mysql based sessions and I know I have had various problems with other programs using file type sessions.
Anyway ... I thought I would give some history and info....

My question is what is the possibility of getting joomla to use mysql/database sessions instead of file type sessions?

well after myriad trials and tribulations, installing uninstalling and installling apache and php by themselves plus zends debugger and or xampp about 20 times trying mulitple browsers and playing with the privacy settings within ie... I found out what the answer is to at least my problem. zonealarm. exiting zonealarm allows session cookies to maintain their identity between pages.
Now don't ask me why when zonealarm is on and I run this from an external linux server it works without a problem but if I run all this on my local machine it doesn't. After four days of going through code and setups I need to get back to work and figure out why I wanted to look at this in the first place. I can say this though, there is some nice looking code in joomla.