MODx Revo installing with WebMatrix

Hi Folks hoping to get an install up and running with WebMatrix.
Noticed this little bug-a-boo so far, when clicking too the installation program running setup:
http://localhost/setup/index.php?action=welcome

Clicking the button to get to that page from the previous installation page and the port number does not get appended like it should for example my setup was using 25147, by going to the previous page you’ll see the correct port number to add to the path.
http://localhost:25147/setup/index.php?action=welcome

It looks as though everytime you click a "Next" button during the installation process you’ve got to add the port number to the end of the localhost path (still jumping through the hoops here).

After that good luck.

I was able to step through the install till the database page, where something went wrong:
http://localhost:25147/setup/index.php?action=database
Error message below
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Connecting to mysql server:
Could not connect to the database server. Check the connection properties and try again.

[2011-02-18 16:50:57] (ERROR in xPDO::connect @ C:\Users\crssp\Documents\My Web Sites\modx-2.0.7-pl\core\xpdo\xpdo.class.php : 331) SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user ’tzmedia’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)

[2011-02-18 16:50:57] (ERROR in xPDO::connect @ C:\Users\crssp\Documents\My Web Sites\modx-2.0.7-pl\core\xpdo\xpdo.class.php : 331) SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user ’tzmedia’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)
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[closer this time.]

Take a look at the core/config/config.inc.php file.

Thanks Bob, it was on a weekday box if you know what I mean.
Maybe next week that will help.
Thanks

Thanks BobRay, hey turns out I was trying to use a user name in the WebMatrix Dialog box, when I should of just been using ’root’ for the localhost mySQL admin user.
I was able to completely install, or so it seems, but haven’t been able to log in to the admin.
The admin page was blinks for some reason:
http://localhost:18531/manager/index.php
Couldn’t seem to log in????
I hit the browsers stop button a couple times to get the linking to stop, and then my log in was successful.

Barring a few sort of bugg-ish behaviors, I’m in, not sure what if anything I can do to alleviate any bugg-i-ness, but I’m Happy!!!!!!!!

On this install WebMatrix set a prefix port of http://localhost:18531 ... I kept plugging that part of the path in, and it worked out. Also there is a config.inc.php file in the core/config folder, where as the last time, it never got written, another good sign then.

Hope all of the above helps somebody else out then.
-ty

The Revo install doesn’t include any pages (not even a home page) so having the front-end empty doesn’t mean anything.

You log in with



You might also try an upgrade setup if you haven’t yet (and the setup directory is still there):

Thanks again BobRay, I was able to log in at:
http://localhost:18531/manager

Probably the best thing for me to do is dig in with Mary’s coding pad tutorials to get my feet wet with creating some resources, etc.

I got to wondering why I wanted to use WebMatrix instead of a Xampp set up, Xampp’s probably best in most cases.
I got WebMatrix to running this local install, I wouldn’t try using it to publish the site anyways.

Hi all, revisiting my convoluted thread here... I just installed revo 2.08pl with smashing success in WebMatrix.
One thing that helped is you can assign the site to run without using a port number with the localhost path.
By default then the port number gets set to 80 which then will run in the browser on the IIS express server provided with WebMatrix with out adding the port number in other words just http://localhost/manager/ will now take you to the manager.

To accomplish changing the port number, just click the site button (lower left) and where it shows the port number that was assigned to this site, just delete the port number and hit enter, it sets it to default that way of 80, and the install goes off without a hitch hopefully for you too.

That was giving me huge headaches earlier.
I’ve not been able to get the revo 2.1 rc4 running in webmatrix, but noticed there were some committed fixes that would probably get that version going to.

Waiting for the final v. 2.1 revo then.
Woo-hoo!