word press and php problems

StarTrekCafe
(@startrekcafe)

13 years, 7 months ago

HI.
GOT XAMP INSTALLED.
AND NOW TRYING TO INSTALL WORD PRESS.
BUT GETTING THIS ERROR.
HOW TO TURN ON PHP.
THIS IS GIVING ME A MIGRAIN.
MARVIN.

Error: PHP is not running
WordPress requires that your web server is running PHP. Your server does not have PHP installed, or PHP is turned off.

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ps: i am a blind it student, trying to rebuild my star trek site, had started doing a visual web developer and sql 2008 project with a friend from http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/blindgeeks. but he is too busy to help me with the project. so got coding block. so was looking for an easier solutions. doing it using word press. no coding, no sql head aches. so as a nebie , how to get this up and running. do not have a web server, except on my local vista box on my toshiba laptop, and jaws 12. vista home premium. and want to use my local box for testing and development. do not have a credit card, and so looking for a free, accessible hosting site, which will hold word press, and also my sql, php, images, etc. and need to rewrite my star trek episodes. from all series and movies. also would like to have a chat porgram or chat forum, audio, video, etc. any help would be appreciative. and in australia.

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esmi
(@esmi)

13 years, 7 months ago

Try contacting your hosts for assistance.

Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

Volunteer Moderator

13 years, 7 months ago

It sounds like XAMPP wasn’t configured properly. Try following this guide:

http://tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

Thread Starter StarTrekCafe
(@startrekcafe)

13 years, 7 months ago

hi. well that is for windows xp, not vista. so how to configure xamp and word press. do they need to be in the same folder. tried the http://localhost/, but got a 404 page not found. please help. using internet explorer 8, and using the jaws for windows screen reader. marvin.

Thread Starter StarTrekCafe
(@startrekcafe)

13 years, 7 months ago

hi. so if any other lbind word press and xamp web designers on this forum can help. a nebie and banging my head against a brick wall and got windows vista home premium, but thinking about upgrading to windows 7 home premium, on a toshiba a300 satellite machine. marvin from australia.

esmi
(@esmi)

13 years, 7 months ago

Have you looked at EasyPHP? Got it working on XP and Win 7 machines here. Very easy to set up.

Thread Starter StarTrekCafe
(@startrekcafe)

13 years, 7 months ago

hi. no had forgotten about easy php. will try that out. marvin. well what about the 5 php that came with the xamp. okay, will try that. marvin.

Samuel B
(@samboll)

13 years, 7 months ago

also, the link James gave you works for all versions of windows
have vista on my box and windows 7 on laptop
wordpress was easy to set up as in XP

Jay Versluis
(@versluis)

13 years, 7 months ago

There’s also Wampserver you can try:

http://www.wampserver.com/en/

Wamp has a nice menu driven box on the bottom right hand side of your screen, with which you can switch all services on and off.

But back to your original problem:
I don’t think it’s an OS issue, it just sounds like PHP (and therefore Xampp) just isn’t running.

I forgot what the file is called, but it’s a .bat file like xampp_start.bat or somesuch.

Thread Starter StarTrekCafe
(@startrekcafe)

13 years, 7 months ago

hi. well lost the link when my machine and my screen reader jaws decided to crash. so can i have the link again. marvin.

Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

Volunteer Moderator

13 years, 7 months ago

It’s still under this topic, the second reply.

Thread Starter StarTrekCafe
(@startrekcafe)

13 years, 7 months ago

hi. okay will go and get the link.
book mark it. then take a look. also will install easy php. that might fix my problems. will get back to you how i get on with setting it up.