Comments on: How To Install WordPress MU In Windows Localhost (With XAMPP)

By: Instalando o Wordpress MU em localhost(com o Xampp for Windows) | Marcelo Torres

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:18:38 +0000

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By: Sageoyogi

Sageoyogi — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:49:00 +0000

beautiful. Am good .. definitely was sequence of events in the database provisioning – e.g. trying multiple times to setup the db. I dropped everything, created the DB again, and then went through the rest of the tutorial …

worked well – thank you!

now onto installing buddypress; hopefully, the fact I just upgraded to WP-mu 3.0 will not complicate my life with that ;) …

cheers!

By: Sageoyogi

Sageoyogi — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:37:20 +0000

okay; thanks. i think you're right. when i was getting the 'redirect' error message, i attempted to submit the wordress-mu installation form more than once – probably corrupted the db

and thanks for tip on submdomain – i will re-reread and try again .. was late last night ;)

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:53:28 +0000

You might have messed it up earlier. My advice: remove all the files and the database and start all over again.

By: Sageoyogi

Sageoyogi — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:36:21 +0000

Yikes spoke too soon .. now I'm getting this error when I attempt to add the required email address in the WordPress-MU installation page:

“Database Tables Missing.
Database tables are missing. This means that MySQL is either not running, WPMU was not installed properly, or someone deleted wp_site. You really should look at your database now.”

By: Sageoyogi

Sageoyogi — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:31:51 +0000

This *almost* worked like a charm ;) .. However, because I selected subdomains, I got to a place where I was getting a nasty error regarding "re-direct will not work -- probably because you're not allowing cookies" .. even after enabling cookies, still had the problem.

I finally reverted to your original suggestion "sub-directories" and it did "work like a charm" but wonder if you had any thoughts on how to get sub domains to work on XAMPP ..

thx!!

thax

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:52:34 +0000

Did you edit the hosts file? For subdomain to work, you have to edit the hosts file for each subdomain you add. If not, read the article more thoroughly for the instructions.

By: sonucares4u

sonucares4u — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:22:23 +0000

Finally it's working.

I wanted Sub-domains but didn't use hosts file.

Just added the required line in my hosts file and everthng is running smooth.

Thank You Buddy.

By: Ramith Kumar

Ramith Kumar — Sat, 29 May 2010 21:51:46 +0000

This worked like a charm !! Thanks a ton for this tutorial :)

By: JoblessPunk

JoblessPunk — Sat, 08 May 2010 02:19:40 +0000

Thanks!

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:07:03 +0000

Usually a newbie won't change the domain name for XAMPP setup, so I guess adding that line might confuse them even more… :-)

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:11:56 +0000

Finally! I installed it successfully! It took me hours to get it installed. I was entering 'root' and leaving the password blank, but forgot that I changed the username and password for phpMyAdmin immediately after installing XAMPP a couple of months ago. Rookie mistake!

Could I make a suggestion? When you ask people to insert the line: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain, could you have some text beside saying: "For example, 127.0.0.1 localhost.insertchosendomain.com" or "For example, we put 127.0.0.1 localhost.maketecheasier.com".

I think this would make it clearer for newbies like myself. I know it might seem really obvious to most, but as a learner, it was quite confusing! I got there in the end though! Thanks for a great guide!

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:12:46 +0000

I am glad that it works for you.

By: anasttspk

anasttspk — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:21:36 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial…. The only thing that I didn't know, while trying to install wp-mu on xampp local windows server, was how to setup this localhost.localdomain . So, you solved it very nicely..

Thaaaaaaanks!!!!!!!

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By: dudelove

dudelove — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:52:48 +0000

thanx a lot brah!
worked like charm!

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:05:19 +0000

I guess you are using Windows Vista or Win 7. Try out this fix

By: Installing mu locally - WordPress Tavern Forum

Installing mu locally - WordPress Tavern Forum — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:21:28 +0000

[...] comapability but it's all fixed now if you do decide to do it, i used the following tutorial: http://maketecheasier.com/install-wo…mpp/2009/05/02 The problem you get if your a vista user is to do with not being able to start the apache and [...]

By: rampathak

rampathak — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:58:47 +0000

I did same as in this tutorial after the completion of installation i go to page
http://http://localhost.localdomain/wordpress-mu/
but it gives me message
Server error!

The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI script.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 500
localhost.localdomain
03/08/10 19:57:05
Apache/2.2.6 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.6 OpenSSL/0.9.8e mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.4
any body help me please

By: nathonhay

nathonhay — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:08:24 +0000

Use the amazingly simple program HostsXpert to edit the Windows hosts file.