By dropsofstardust on

Hello!

I am really new to this.....

I have tried installing Drupal 6, but for some reason it didnt work with the Xampp version I had. So I downloaded and installed Drupal 7, which actually worked, but that I think was not a good idea, as It has not been released yet, and I am not especially confident with all the technical stuff.

Can someone tell me which version of Xampp would be compatible with Drupal 6? Or give me some help as to what to do!

Thank you!

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marcvangend
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You are correct that using Drupal 7 is not a good idea yet. It's only there for those who want to help writing code for it.

I'm using XAMPP 1.6.7, which works fine. Drupal has some known problems with PHP 5.3, which is included in the latest version of XAMPP (1.7.2). XAMPP 1.7.1 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/1.7.1/) is shipped with PHP 5.2.9, so try if that solves your problems. If not, try to post a more detailed error description here (have a look at the error log!).

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wicketywick commented

xampp comes with a function to use either php 4 or php 5.
in the xampp installation folder there is a batch file called php-swith which you can run when you server is not running. this will let you change the php version being used from 5 to 4.

Just install the newest version of xampp and make sure you use php 4.

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marcvangend
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PHP 4 is not recommended. It is complete nonsense that Drupal would only support PHP 4 - Drupal has in fact supported the gophp5 initiative for over two years now: http://drupal.org/gophp5. Drupal 6 recommends PHP 5.2. Since my previous post in this thread, Drupal 6.14 has been released, which also supports PHP 5.3 (see http://drupal.org/requirements).

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ilyalozovyy commented

marcvangend,

PHP 5.3 works however not all of the modules are going to run without errors if you use PHP 5.3.
The recommended approach that I've seen so far is to install XAMPP 1.7.2 and then install XAMPP 1.7.1 and go through a manual process
to make the Drupal install work.
The process is described here:

http://drupal.org/node/603778

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Yoshi commented

I'd drop XAMPP for WAMP (unless there's a specific reason to stick with XAMPP) as WAMP gives you an easy interface into swamping between different versions of Apache, PHP and MySQL.

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marcvangend
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I agree, I have also switched to WAMP on my Windows system for exactly the same reason.