Xampp configuration to install joomla!

Here we're going to discussed about some configuration that we have to make for Joomla! to run smoothly.

Before you can install Joomla 1.5, you have to download Joomla's archive and extract that archive in the public folder of the web server.

In our case these folder is htdocs of our xampp installation.

After we extract Joomla's setup files will make some adjustments to the php's configuration in order to ensure full compatibility with Joomla!.

This settings are:

I already made the setting, that is why "Actual" are all green.

Usually you only have to change off "Display Errors", if you need to change something else, please comment and I'll gladly help you. So let's change off "Display Errors".

Go to xampp/php and open php.ini with a simple text editor like notepad (I use and recommend notepad++).

Now go to line 531 or search(Ctrl+F) for "display_errors" and replace display_errors = On with display_errors = Off and we are done.

For the settings to be available you have to restart the web server, so go to xampp folder and double click on xampp_restart.exe

Now we can install Joomla!.