Can't Install Modx locally with Xampp

I have Xampp up and running with no issues. I was using it to test out Joomla. Then I downloaded the latest Modx and tried to extract the files to a folder I created called learningModx in the root of the Htdocs folder under Xampp. I had some problems with the extraction, it didn’t want to extract and when I created the folder and extracted it, it would create a subfolder called xamp-6.1.2-pl. Then when I tested the http://localhost/learningmodx I get an a 503 erroe, server not available. So I tried taking the subfolder that was created and moving it to the root of the htdocs folder but got the same error. I really want to start to use Modx but I’m off to a rough start. Can anyone give me any idea how to get this up and running?
thanks

Quote from: Archer8 at Jun 08, 2011, 06:47 AM

I have Xampp up and running with no issues. I was using it to test out Joomla. Then I downloaded the latest Modx and tried to extract the files to a folder I created called learningModx in the root of the Htdocs folder under Xampp. I had some problems with the extraction, it didn’t want to extract and when I created the folder and extracted it, it would create a subfolder called xamp-6.1.2-pl. Then when I tested the http://localhost/learningmodx I get an a 503 erroe, server not available. So I tried taking the subfolder that was created and moving it to the root of the htdocs folder but got the same error. I really want to start to use Modx but I’m off to a rough start. Can anyone give me any idea how to get this up and running?
thanks

You may have a corrupted download. Try downloading it again.

I made a mistake before, during extraction it was creating the folder modx-2.1.1-pl
I did try and download it again and I tried the previous version of modx, 2.1.0. Both just gave me the same result, 503 error, site temporarily unavailable. I might add I am using Xampp for windows version 1.7.3 which is one version back from the latest and I am on an XP machine with SP3.

Have you actually run the installation? To install you have to navigate to the setup folder in your web browser, e.g http://localhost/learningmodx/setup

during extraction it was creating the folder modx-2.1.1-pl

So copy the content of this folder (not the folder itself) into the folder [tt]xampp/htdocs/learningmodx/[/tt] , and then - like einsteinsboi said - open [tt]http://localhost/learningmodx/setup/[/tt] in your browser. Follow the steps, normally it works flawlessly.
If you get a message that the database you indicate is already existing, may be it is left over from a previous try. So you should use phpAdmin to delete that database before (or you chose a new name for the one to create).

Ok, now I’m getting somewhere. I ran the http://localhost/learningmodx/setup and I got it to start the setup.
Why wasn’t that in the directions??
Then I got a database error so I had previously created a database called learningmodx with password
from http://www.installationwiki.org/Installing_MODx
so I used the following settings:
Database type: MySql
Database host: localhost
Database login name: Admin
Database password: admin
Database name: learningmodx
Table prefix: Modx_

Then I got a success message. Thanks for your help on this.

I was having problems with the next step.
First the character set is set like this:

Connection character set: latin1
Collation: latin1_swedish_ci

Should that be set like that?

Then I was getting an error when I try the next step.

→ Create or test selection of your database.

Checking database: MODX could not create your database. Please manually create your database and then try again.

So I deleted the databases and the users using the http://localhost/phpmyadmin

Then I recreated a database called admin with a user and pw admin. Then I ran the setup again and it got by this step successfully.

Then for the Default Admin
user: Admin
pw: admin1

and I got Core installation was successful