Title: Problems Installing with XAMPP
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problems Installing with XAMPP

 *  [bukid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bukid/)
 * (@bukid)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-installing-with-xampp/)
 * Hi I followed the directions using at:[http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/)
   
   I got all the way to the end of the directions. It didn’t work and I got the 
   following error message:
 * define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database define(‘DB_USER’,‘
   username’); // Your MySQL username define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password’); // …and
   password define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change
   this value
    Warning: require_once(ABSPATH/wp-admin/admin-functions.php) [function.
   require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Program
   Files\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\upgrade-functions.php on line 3
 * Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘ABSPATH/
   wp-admin/admin-functions.php’ (include_path=’.;C:\Program Files\xampp\php\pear\’)
   in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\upgrade-functions.php on 
   line 3
 * I have dreamweaver MX on my machine. Is this causing my problems? all the .php
   files are saved as dreamweaver files.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-installing-with-xampp/#post-367504)
 * Please – never ever ever use DW unless you know every little corner of it. Why
   use a $400 program when notepad++ is free. The free one works.
 * Dump DW and start again 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [bukid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bukid/)
 * (@bukid)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-installing-with-xampp/#post-367588)
 * I can’t get rid of Dreamweaver because I am editing multiple sites with it. Does
   anyone have any alternate suggestions, besides dumping dreamweaver? Podz…could
   you be more specific as per my problem with XAMPP and the error message I am 
   getting when trying to install locally. Thanks. Sorry for my ignorance.
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-installing-with-xampp/#post-367592)
 * does the file:
    C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\upgrade-functions.
   php actually exist?
 * -d
 *  Thread Starter [bukid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bukid/)
 * (@bukid)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-installing-with-xampp/#post-367611)
 * I found that file at C:\XAMPP\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\upgrade-functions.
   php
 * I moved the XAMPP folder directly to my C: drive
 *  Thread Starter [bukid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bukid/)
 * (@bukid)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-installing-with-xampp/#post-368090)
 * I re-installed XAMPP…and followed the directions exactly…Copied the details exactly
   as they appear in the install guide in the wp-config.php file. And then I put
   the wordpress folder in htdocs…its still not working when I try the install…someone
   please help!! I would love to chat with someone on AIM or MSN to try and get 
   this thing working. Thanks all.
 *  [richarduk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richarduk/)
 * (@richarduk)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-installing-with-xampp/#post-368118)
 * I have WP on Xamp and it’s great, no problems.
 * Don’t know if this will get blasted but you can contact me on richard (AT) alchemweb(
   dot)co(dot)uk if you need any help (no promises!)
 *  [bmagierski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmagierski/)
 * (@bmagierski)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-installing-with-xampp/#post-368139)
 * What did you use to edit the wp-config.php file in the setup? I had this problem
   b/c I modified it with BBEdit and it was giving me problems saving it with a 
   Western Mac OS text encoding … don’t know why.
 * I subsequently edited the file using ‘vim’ in the command line and it worked 
   fine. You may try editing using vim, vi or less.

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-installing-with-xampp/#post-368139)
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