Hi, I'm really new to XAMPP as I stumbled across it from doing some research on database-driven websites. I'm not sure if this topic is already stated elsewhere in this forum, but I can't seem to find it. So I'm wondering, as I stated above, on how to actually install and set up the application successfully. I've tried several times installing and re-installing it until eventually, the latest version comes out (XAMPP 1.7.7) ^^"
The thing is, when I first attempted to setup the application, it gave me the error below:
Error Status Check Failure (3).
This program must run form your XAMPP root directory
and also, this error on the following re-installations:
No package file found... (Or something like that)
So I followed the advice through this forum relating to that error, but still, my XAMPP doesn't seem to be working well. I may be doing something wrong but I don't have a clue what it is since this is my very first time using XAMPP. And on the latest re-installation (I downloaded XAMPP Windows 1.7.7 - 7Zip, and extracted it to the root file C:\ as instructed somewhere in the XAMPP website and in this forum), Apache and mySQL doesn't run even if I pressed the Start button So yeah... I'm really clueless on what to do right now.
I want to do a database-driven website, so I can easily access the info from and connect to the database locally, but I can't figure out what I did wrong with the installation. And anyway, I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 bits and XAMPP Windows 1.7.7.
Any help would be appreciated for this XAMPP newbie
Kind regards,
Arashi.