Installation on Windows

Warning: BxCMS on Windows does not work with the XAMPP 1.4.12 (or more precisely PHP 5.0.3). You have to upgrade to PHP 5.0.4 manually or wait until a newer release of XAMPP is ready. See [How to upgrade PHP in XAMPP manually]

IMPORTANT: eAccelerator delivered with XAMPP 1.4.13 (current release) and before is buggy. It doesn't work with MDB2 (and other classes). Remove it from your php.ini. Edit xampp\apache\bin\php.ini and remove the line "extension=eaccelerator.dll".

There's nothing special for Windows, if you have a running Apache, PHP 5 and MySQL everything should work fine.
But nevertheless, here's a short introduction, how to get that running from start.

• Get xampp from http://apachefriends.org/ and install it on your windows box
• Get TortoiseSVN from http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ and install it.
• Check out the bxcmsdemo. Go to c:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs\, right click, choose "Checkout .." from the context menu. And fill in the following values:

  URL of Repository: http://svn.liip.ch/repos/public/fluxcms_demo/trunk
  Checkout Directory: c:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs\bxcmsdemo

  or for the stable branch

  URL of Repository: http://svn.liip.ch/repos/public/fluxcms_demo/branches/1_3/
  Checkout Directory: c:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs\bxcmsdemo

• Hit Ok and Flux CMS will be downloaded. This will take some time..
• Enable mod_rewrite in httpd.conf (usually in c:\apachefriends\xampp\apache\conf). Search for

  #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

  and uncomment it:

  LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

• the cms does work in a subdirectory of a VirtualHost, but this is not really tested, so we recommend using it in DOCUMENT_ROOT. Therefore create a VirtualHost in httpd.conf:

  <VirtualHost *>
  {panel}
     ServerName bxcmsdemo
     DocumentRoot c:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs\bxcmsdemo
    <Directory c:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs\bxcmsdemo>
          AllowOverride All
    </Directory>  
  {panel}
  </VirtualHost>

• Add a bxcmsdemo to HOSTS in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\

  127.0.0.1 bxcmsdemo

• Start the Apache and MySQL Server with the XAMPP start button
• go to http://bxcmsdemo/install/ and do the installation