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Part 1: Step by step instructions for how to install XAMPP for windows on a W2K machine.
Always start installation after a fresh reboot.

1. Open your browser and navigate to apachefriends.org
2. Click XAMPP link
3. Click XAMPP for windows
4. Scroll to the download section and click “Installer” under XAMPP for windows 1.6.6a, this will start the download, save the file to the desktop and click “OPEN” when download is complete
5. Select “English” and click “OK”
6. Click “Next”
7. Leave all option default and click “Next” again
8. Check all boxes to install as service and then click “Install”, it may take a while to finish
9. Click “Finish” and then “OK”
10. Click “Yes” and the XAMPP control panel should start.
11. Click “admin” button next to Apache, this will bring up the browser and navigate to localhost/xampp
12. Select “English”
13. Click the “security” menu item under XAMPP heading and notice all of the unsecured items
14. There is a link to xamppsecurity.php near the middle of the page, click it
15. Set root password for MySql and click “password change”
16. Set Xampp Directory Protect user and password (I use the same as sql) and click “make safe”
17. Click the “security” menu item on the left and verify changes after inputting username and password
18. Go to the Xampp control panel and click the “admin” button next to filezilla
19. Login to filezilla using the default password wampp
20. Navigate the menu edit→Settings→admin interface settings
21. Check “change admin password” and input new password and click ok
22. Navigate the menu edit→users→new user
23. Click rename and give it a name and new password, then click “OK”
24. Back in your browser click the “security” menu items on the left and verify changes, if all is well then XAMPP is ready to go, all we need now are a few configuration edits to use drupal.
25. In your file browser go to c:\\xampp\apache\conf folder and edit httpd.conf with your favorite editor
26. Two lines need to be edited with care:
DocumentRoot “c:/xampp/htdocs” → DocumentRoot “c:/xampp/htdocs/drupal”
And
#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
take out the # in the above line to uncomment it
27. We are now ready to install drupal onto our new web server

Part 2: Instructions for installing Drupal 6.1 on a fresh XAMPP installation

1. Open your browser to Drupal.org
2. Under the “download” section click “Drupal 6.1”
3. Click “Download Drupal 6.1” and save the file to your desktop, click “OPEN” when prompted and extract the files to your desktop
4. Rename the extracted folder “drupal 6.1” to “drupal” and place in the c:\\xampp\htdocs folder
5. In the XAMPP control panel restart MySql and Apache in order.
6. Got to localhost/phpmyadmin in your browser and login using “root” and psswd set for mysql
7. Click the privileges menu item under localhost heading
8. Click “add new user”
9. Set user name “drupal”, host ”localhost”, password “xxxx”, then, under database for user field, select “create db with same name and grant all privileges” and click “go”
10. Navigate to localhost in your browser and click “english”
11. Enter “drupal” in DB name user “drupal” and psswd “xxxx” click “save and continue”
12. Set your site name and default admin email address, create your admin account, enable clean URL’s, then click save and continue
13. You will get a screen saying all went well except that you email does not work, which is expected
14. Click “Your new site and then check the health of your site by navigating the menu administer→reports→status report and click “run cron manually”
then navigate administer→reports→available updates