SOLVED RocketLauncher hangs up at 'installing sample data'
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- DanG
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Steve Howard wrote:
MAMP didn't work out
Hmm...so your saying that "MAMP for WINDOWS" beta didn't work out? That's distressing as I'll be writing a guide soon.
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- Steve Howard
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Well, it didn't work out for me... I am an engineer but not a software engineer!
The problem was that when I used MAMP as a local server it could never access the database on STEP 2 of the joomla installation. I didn't really try to figure this out. I immediately tried WAMP after and everything worked perfectly. Let me know if you need more details I would be happy to share. I really appreciate you helping me on this.
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- DanG
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Steve Howard wrote:
Let me know if you need more details I would be happy to share. I really appreciate you helping me on this.
OH Steve you have to learn not to commit to anything
I'm calling on you for a little help. As I said I've ran many local servers and right now I'm the happiest with MfW's.
If your willing to try again, I'll post a preview of my MfW guide here and you can try it out.
So how does that sound
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- Terp
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...another alternative is AMPPS:
AMPPS is a WAMP, MAMP and LAMP stack of Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, PHP, Perl & Python.
AMPPS enables you to focus more on using applications rather than maintaining them.
With AMPPS you can create a website by installing any of the 329 Apps, customizing it, and then simply publishing it on the internet via a wide choice of hosting service providers.
I use that when WAMP doesn't want to cooperate, but I am now going to give MAMP a look.
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- Steve Howard
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Dan,
Absolutely!
I would like to repay the favor and help out if I can. If I get it to work, basically anyone should be able to!
The only catch is it may take me some time to get around to, as I am building a company and spending most hours working on that. Let me know what you think and where to go from here. Thanks again for all the help!
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Terp wrote:
I use that when WAMP doesn't want to cooperate, but I am now going to give MAMP a look.
Hi Terp
I know your regular contributor so if you and Steve would be my beta-testers for the guide I'd really love it!!!
MAMP for Windows was suggested to me by our devs (all MacHEads ) although I'm a hardcoded PC guy I'll try anything that is advantageous to ME! MAMP for Windows has been so
I'll be posting the 1st rough draft here later this afternoon.
BTW: In the space of 15 minutes I had MfW running on my VMware Win-7 Workstation with no extraneous fiddling or diddling.
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MAMP for WINDOWS - 1st Draft
Go to MAMP for WINDOWS Beta to your HDD.
Launch the program and you will see the setup screenThis image is hidden for guests.
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You will be asked for a folder location on your HDD for the installation of MAMP for WINDOWS BetaThis image is hidden for guests.
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During installation if you don't have Microsoft's NET framework it will be installed for youThis image is hidden for guests.
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On completion of Microsoft's NET framework install you will see this screenThis image is hidden for guests.
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On completion of MAMP for WINDOWS Beta installation you see the Control Panel appear with your Apache and MySQL servers already startedThis image is hidden for guests.
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so as to make an important preference change. The default port for MAMP for WINDOWS Beta to communicate with your PC is port - 80. However this is a popular port for Skype and other apps so it's wise to set it to any free port on your PC. As I have three local servers running on the same PC I use these three ports - 8080, 8081 and 8082.
Once stopped click the PREFERENCES button and you will see a new window popup.
This image is hidden for guests.. Set the Apache port setting to a value of your choosing. Click OK. Back at the Control Panel, click START Servers and then click the WebStart button.
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The WebStart will bring up a Welcome screenThis image is hidden for guests.whose files are stored in your new local server folders. So if you chose the default of C:\MAMP then your site files will be stored in C:\MAMP\htdocs.
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Our next step is creating a DataBase (DB) to use for our first new site. I use ADMINER as my DB Admin console. I gave up on the PhPMyAdmin console ages ago. So launch AdMinerThis image is hidden for guests.or from the MAMP for WINDOWS Beta Welcome Screen -> PhPMyAdmin and we'll create a new DB. The default username and password for Login are both "root".
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Once logged we'll create our DB and set it's collation. Collation refers to a set of rules that determine how data is sorted and compared. Character data is sorted using rules that define the correct character sequence, with options for specifying case-sensitivity, accent marks, kana character types and character width. Generally for Joomla the preferred collation setting is "utf8_general_ci"
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Now we'll start installing our Panacea J3.x RocketLauncher. In C:\MAMP\htdocs create a new folder, I call it Panacea33 so we'll have C:\MAMP\htdocs\Panacea33.
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Download the package to your HDD and extract the contents out to the C:\MAMP\htdocs\Panacea33 folder.
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Next we'll start the installation process by accessing the folder in a browser URL. Here's a little tip. Create a bookmark in your browser using the port # you assigned MAMP for WINDOWS Beta. So in my case "http://localhost:8081/". This will open a FTP like-view in your browser window.
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Just click the Pancea33 folder and the install screen will appear.
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Fill this in as you wish. Next is the DB setup screen:
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As mentioned before the default Username and Password is "root".
Then we move to the final overview screen:
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You'll notice we have an issue as the Output Buffering is NOT at the Joomla recommended setting of OFF but rather ON. This can be addressed at a later point but we'll do it now. Launch your MAMP for WINDOWS Control Panel and press the STOP Servers button. The Apache server must be stopped so as to make any changes to the configuration or .ini files. This change must be made in the php.ini file which is located here -> C:\MAMP\htdocs\conf\php*.*.*
To determine the PHP version and folder you need to access, go to the Control Panel and click the PREFERENCES button. Select the PHP tab and you will see the PHP version currently in use.
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So in my case I need to access the php.ini file located in C:\MAMP\conf\php5.5.7. Open the file in your favourite plain text editor, I use
Notepad++ . Search for this string -> "e.g., output_buffering=4096". Change the line below to "output_buffering=Off"
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SAVE the file and go to the Control Panel and click the START Servers button. Let's refresh the Overview page and we'll see this:
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Proceed and the RocketLauncher will install and come to the Remove Installation screen.
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If you click the site option you will be taken to your brand new RocketLauncher installation.
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Also confirming by viewing the DB:
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Now you can easily develop your site locally. If you have issues that we would need to see it's simply a matter of cloning your site with a free copy of Akeeba backup and uploading the retore package to your remote server and setting it up there. - Last Edit: 10 years 5 months ago by DanG.
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