Problems Installing with XAMPP

  • Hi I followed the directions using at:https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/
    I got all the way to the end of the directions. It didn’t work and I got the following error message:

    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database define(‘DB_USER’, ‘username’); // Your MySQL username define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password’); // …and password define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
    Warning: require_once(ABSPATH/wp-admin/admin-functions.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\upgrade-functions.php on line 3

    Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘ABSPATH/wp-admin/admin-functions.php’ (include_path=’.;C:\Program Files\xampp\php\pear\’) in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\upgrade-functions.php on line 3

    I have dreamweaver MX on my machine. Is this causing my problems? all the .php files are saved as dreamweaver files.

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  • Please – never ever ever use DW unless you know every little corner of it. Why use a $400 program when notepad++ is free. The free one works.

    Dump DW and start again ??

    Thread Starter bukid

    (@bukid)

    I can’t get rid of Dreamweaver because I am editing multiple sites with it. Does anyone have any alternate suggestions, besides dumping dreamweaver? Podz…could you be more specific as per my problem with XAMPP and the error message I am getting when trying to install locally. Thanks. Sorry for my ignorance.

    does the file:
    C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\upgrade-functions.php
    actually exist?

    -d

    Thread Starter bukid

    (@bukid)

    I found that file at C:\XAMPP\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\upgrade-functions.php

    I moved the XAMPP folder directly to my C: drive

    Thread Starter bukid

    (@bukid)

    I re-installed XAMPP…and followed the directions exactly…Copied the details exactly as they appear in the install guide in the wp-config.php file. And then I put the wordpress folder in htdocs…its still not working when I try the install…someone please help!! I would love to chat with someone on AIM or MSN to try and get this thing working. Thanks all.

    I have WP on Xamp and it’s great, no problems.

    Don’t know if this will get blasted but you can contact me on richard (AT) alchemweb(dot)co(dot)uk if you need any help (no promises!)

    What did you use to edit the wp-config.php file in the setup? I had this problem b/c I modified it with BBEdit and it was giving me problems saving it with a Western Mac OS text encoding … don’t know why.

    I subsequently edited the file using ‘vim’ in the command line and it worked fine. You may try editing using vim, vi or less.

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