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To install Softaculous just follow the below doc:
http://www.softaculous.com/docs/Install ... s_in_XAMPP

Nice! I'm trying it out now, but can't get anything to display (no errors) at the localhost enduser step... Just a blank page.

Hi,

Can you let us know what the apache error logs say when you access Softaculous?

Hi,

That are really great News. I'm a big fan of softaculous and like to see it working smoothly with XAMPP.

"Badly" i am on vacation for more than a week now and didn't take my notebook with me so i can not test it by myself.

So my questions:
Is Softaculous for XAMPP working on portable devices too?
Does the Softaculous Installation follow the XAMPP philosophy of not setting/changing any system settings like path variable or registry keys?

Thanks for providing this service.

Best wishes,
Altrea

softaculous wrote:Hi,

Can you let us know what the apache error logs say when you access Softaculous?

127.0.0.1 - usernamehere [01/Aug/2014:11:01:02 -0400] "GET /softaculous/enduser/ HTTP/1.1" 200 -

I've got http authentication on my site (as indicated above), so I will pull it out to test again in a few. However, I would think that it would give me a 401 or some other error message if that were the case. I'll report back here.

UPDATE:
Yeah, same thing. I get a 200 and nothing in the error log. Ioncube is set up fine and works according to the test page. No errors encountered when running the softaculous install script.

127.0.0.1 - - [01/Aug/2014:13:16:05 -0400] "GET /softaculous/enduser/ HTTP/1.1" 200 -

UPDATE 2:
I did notice that it created a private folder with a db password (which I do have set), but not a scripts folder or a database in MySQL. I may have missed a step to create a db user for softaculous or is this normal behavior?

UPDATE 3:
Just in case I installed a fresh XAMPP installation on a Win7 VM and left the default error reporting on and found these:

[02-Aug-2014 04:52:43 Europe/Berlin] PHP Notice: Undefined index: restart in C:\xampp\htdocs\softaculous\install.php on line 183
[02-Aug-2014 04:52:45 Europe/Berlin] PHP Warning: rename(_index.php,index.php): The system cannot find the file specified. (code: 2) in C:\xampp\htdocs\softaculous\install.php on line 556

Hi,

Altrea wrote:So my questions:
Is Softaculous for XAMPP working on portable devices too?

Apparently, I doubt. But yes it's possible by changing few paths in one file. We will do something to make things easier in the coming versions.

Does the Softaculous Installation follow the XAMPP philosophy of not setting/changing any system settings like path variable or registry keys?

Yes, neither path variable not registry is changed.

In fact, User can consider now Softaculous as any PHP script I.e simply extract the archive in a folder and follow simple install steps. Install steps basically only checks few basic things like XAMPP Path, ionCube, PHP BIN path and some few more paths.

JJ_Tagy wrote:

softaculous wrote:Hi,

Can you let us know what the apache error logs say when you access Softaculous?

127.0.0.1 - usernamehere [01/Aug/2014:11:01:02 -0400] "GET /softaculous/enduser/ HTTP/1.1" 200 -

I've got http authentication on my site (as indicated above), so I will pull it out to test again in a few. However, I would think that it would give me a 401 or some other error message if that were the case. I'll report back here.

UPDATE:
Yeah, same thing. I get a 200 and nothing in the error log. Ioncube is set up fine and works according to the test page. No errors encountered when running the softaculous install script.

127.0.0.1 - - [01/Aug/2014:13:16:05 -0400] "GET /softaculous/enduser/ HTTP/1.1" 200 -

UPDATE 2:
I did notice that it created a private folder with a db password (which I do have set), but not a scripts folder or a database in MySQL. I may have missed a step to create a db user for softaculous or is this normal behavior?

UPDATE 3:
Just in case I installed a fresh XAMPP installation on a Win7 VM and left the default error reporting on and found these:

[02-Aug-2014 04:52:43 Europe/Berlin] PHP Notice: Undefined index: restart in C:\xampp\htdocs\softaculous\install.php on line 183
[02-Aug-2014 04:52:45 Europe/Berlin] PHP Warning: rename(_index.php,index.php): The system cannot find the file specified. (code: 2) in C:\xampp\htdocs\softaculous\install.php on line 556

Hi,

I think you are providing the access log contents instead of error log.

Please provide error log after accessing softaculous.

That's just it. As I mentioned above, there are no errors other than the php awnings listed.

JJ_Tagy wrote:That's just it. As I mentioned above, there are no errors other than the php awnings listed.

Hi,

Are you connected to internet through proxy?
Apparently, direct Internet connection is required to install Softaculous, proxy is not supported yet.

No, I have direct connection mostly. Currently behind a router. I wonder ... I think satellite does something weird with IP addresses.

EDIT: I'll try another connection when I go to work tomorrow and see if anything changes.

EDIT2: If it helps, I ran Wireshark and there weren't any outbound connection requests.

JJ_Tagy wrote:No, I have direct connection mostly. Currently behind a router. I wonder ... I think satellite does something weird with IP addresses.

EDIT: I'll try another connection when I go to work tomorrow and see if anything changes.

EDIT2: If it helps, I ran Wireshark and there weren't any outbound connection requests.

Hi,

Please download the package again and try installing from scratch.

Everything went smooth this time. I'm up and operational. Nice work, thanks!

As for feedback, would you prefer here or on your site somewhere? I have a few suggestions.

Hi,

Thank you !

You can provide your suggestions on Softaculous Forum:
http://www.softaculous.com/board/index.php?fid=2&fname=Suggestions

I have installed Softaculous for xampp.
The installation seemed OK, but problems arose when I tried to use it to install Joomla 3.3.3.
I set the Administrator name and password, but when I tried to log in to Joomla the password was not accepted. This was not a typo on my part.
Why did the installation not save my admin password properly?

stevsurf wrote:I have installed Softaculous for xampp.
The installation seemed OK, but problems arose when I tried to use it to install Joomla 3.3.3.
I set the Administrator name and password, but when I tried to log in to Joomla the password was not accepted. This was not a typo on my part.
Why did the installation not save my admin password properly?

Which PHP version are you using ?