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Accessing Book Materials with XAMPP

Some of you have had some issues in setting up your environments to run either Perl or PHP scripts. This tutorial will show you how you can do that easily by utilizing XAMPP. In just a few minutes you should be able to run everything by following the steps shown in this tutorial.

To start, here is a short video demonstation of how you can install XAMPP to view SEO Warrior book materials. Please note that I am using a vanilla Windows XP system in the video.

For those that do not wish to see the video follow the following steps:

1> Download SEO Warrior book materials at: http://book.seowarrior.net/xampp.zip

2> Unzip the package to c:\xampp
Note: Check this folder to make sure that you don’t get the “c:\xampp\xampp\” scenario
(if you cut the inner folder and paste it over the top folder at the roor level of drive C)

3) Run Apache by double clicking on: C:\xampp\apache_start.bat
(or by executing the batch file in Dos Prompt)

4) Browse to http://localhost:10000/
At this point you should see a screen looking just like the one below:

Note: If you do not see this screen, chances are your Apache is not running due to a port conflict (which could be caused by a program such as Skype). You can always manually get to the book scripts by going to C:\xampp\htdocs\book\downloads\

I hope this information and video was helpful and if you have any questions you can drop me a note.

Regards,
John

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9 Responses to “Accessing Book Materials with XAMPP”

  1. Accessing Book Materials with XAMPP | SEO Warrior | Coder Online says:
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  3. renesouza says:
    July 30, 2010 at 9:06 am

    Hi john,
    i did exactly what you said in this tutorial, but when I run apache_start.bat, then apears a message “apache” is not started,
    and i’ can’t run the scripts, what can i do?

    I’m using windows 7 ultimate, is there another way to run the scripts?

    thanks

  4. John says:
    July 30, 2010 at 9:42 am

    I think you have a ports problem. Are you running Skype or similar?

  5. renesouza says:
    July 30, 2010 at 10:06 am

    No john, I don’t have Skype instaled neither others VOIPs or something like that.
    I has a Xampp version intaled before, 1.7.3, then I uninstaled it a that from the http://book.seowarrior.net/xampp.zip. And I had run the netstat command at the DOS and shows that there’s no active conection at the port 80.

  6. renesouza says:
    July 30, 2010 at 10:10 am

    sorry i did tha I unistaled the Xampp version 1.7.3 and intaled that in the link that you share.

  7. John says:
    July 31, 2010 at 8:35 am

    Hi Rene,

    Does this mean that you were able to install it with no problem?

    Thanks,
    John

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  9. renesouza says:
    August 10, 2010 at 6:04 am

    Hi john,
    no I can’t run the scripts with xampp in windows 7, I’ll try to run with easyphp, I’ll report back anyway,
    thanks

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