[Archon-L] Installing Archon on a Local Machine (fwd)

[Chris Prom]

As Chris points out, I made a slight mistake in the instructions. 
Please see below.

Thanks,

Chris

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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:42:30 -0500
From: Chris Rishel <rishel at uiuc.edu>
To: Chris Prom <prom at uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: [Archon-L] Installing Archon on a Local Machine

Chris,

The IP is wrong in step 4 (127.0.0.0), it needs to be either 127.0.0.1 or
localhost.  Whatever you put, you should probably be consistent throughout,
there is no reason to having both 127.0.0.1 and localhost, use one or the
other.

Chris

On 4/26/07, Chris Prom <prom at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> In response to some recent reqeusts, I'd like to post these
> instructions for loading Archon on a local machine, such as a
> desktop or laptop.
>
> Please note that while this is not recommended, it will work if
> you are simply hoping to test archon before implementing it.
>
> Before you can load Archon, you must load a software package
> called XAMPP onto your computer, and configure it correctly.
> YOu will need 'administrator' priviledges on the machine for this
> to work correctly.  Also, I should note that depending on the
> computer you load this onto, some parts of Archon may not run
> correctly, due to the way the the XAMPP software seems to
> interact the Archon scripts.
>
> 1. Download and install XAMPP software onto the local machine.
>
> http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
>
> It is generally best just to use the self-installer packet.
> During the screen that says "XAMPP Options" check the boxes
> for "install apache as a service" and "install MySQL as a
> service" Make a note of where xampp is being installed,
> generally program files/xampp.
>
> 2.  AFter the xampp install script has finished running,
> configure you xampp settings through 'http://localhost' in a web
> browser, if you think this is necessary.  You may wish to tighten
> the security up a bit, it is totally at your discretion.  You
> should be very careful if you change any of the security
> settings, since it may break XAMPP.  If you computer has other
> security settings in place (e.g. is behind a firewall), it should
> not be necessary to fine tune the settings.
>
> 3.  Go into PHPmyAdmin through the link from
> http://localhost/xampp.  Create a database for the archon web
> application to use.  If desired, go under the privileges tab,
> make a new user and password.  Make sure the user has full
> rights.  Note the name of the new database, user and password.
> It would be best to use COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci when creating the
> DB so that ARchon will support the full character set.  If you do
> not wish to make a user, you can just use the user 'root' to
> connect to archon, with a blank (empty) password.
>
> 4. Open the Archon self installer file and and complete the
> fields (more information on what to include is in the admin
> manual on the project website).  Use localhost or 127.0.0.0 for
> the server address and enter the name of the datbase you created,
> the database login, and password.  Upload the files to the
> correct local drive where you want Archon to be installed. This
> has to be has to be in your xampp document root, which will
> generally be something like c:\program
> files\xampp\htdocs\archon).  In the field for Archon Web address
> type http://localhost/archon.
>
> 5. Instead of using the install packet, you can manually copy the
> archon folder to programfiles/xampp/htdocs, the set the
> user, password, database, etc in config.inc.php.  once you have
> the setting in the config file, go to
> http://localhost/archon/install/index.php to complete the
> installation.
>
> The base url for archon will then be http://localhost/archon.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
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>
> Christopher J. Prom
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> University of Illinois Archives
> 19 Library
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> Urbana, IL 61801
>
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