Hi,
I am trying to setup a development environment on a usb stick.
Initially I planned to develop in joomla 1.7, and got that workng fine on xampp 1.7.4 fixng the reporting errors and password issue happily.
After further thought, decided developing in J1.5.23 would be better (various reasons)
Discovered j1.5 and xampp 1.7.4 known not to work, that xampp 1.7.3 reqd
Reformatted the usb stick to make sure it would be a fresh install
Installed and setup xampp 1.7.3 (fixing time zone settings which gave errors in article manager)
installed and setup joomla 1.5.23
Got maximum_execution_time failures when tryingto install extensions (one template did install despite error messages, other templates and components just timed out)
Edited xampp/php/php.ini changed maximum_execution_time to 300 from 60 - still get time out errors (at 60 not 300)
I have searched and found various refereces but no consensus on how to fix, and the whole installation is very slow compared to the xampp1.7.4 / J!1.7 that I had working at first.
I really want to develop under J!1.5 (current live website has j1.5 in a wrapper, I want to transfer the data without worry of migrating; the extensions I want are well documented in 1.5, more free templates)
Any help appreciated - I speak non-geek better than geek(!) being self taught. Thanks for looking