[support] installing a test server on a machine running Windows 7 -64 bits OS

[Don]

I like downloading each module separately. They all have Windows 
binaries available. The only tricky part is setting up rewrite rules and 
virtual hosts in apache, and there's plenty of help for that if you 
haven't done it before.
That way I get exactly the version I want. Like php 5.2.14
Last time I used XAMPP it had jumped to php 5.3, which at the time 
wasn't compatible with Drupal. I'm not sure where that stands now.

-Don-


On 10/28/2010 10:53 AM, E.Perez-Minana at surrey.ac.uk wrote:
> Hello Support:
>
> The steps listed on the help page for setting up a test site mention XAMPP, as the easiest way to install drupal for the purposes of running a test site. It also indicates that the steps listed there are relevant for the installation of a test server on a machine running Windows Vista or Windows XP.
>
> The machine which I intend to use to run my test site runs Windows 7 64-bits OS; are the steps listed on http://drupal.org/node/307956 "Simple install of Drupal on XAMPP" equally applicable, or is there something I need to look out for before proceeding with the installation?
>
> In a comment page, somebody suggested using Microsoft's WPI instead of XAMPP (but the comment was recorded in June) does anybody have suggestions/thoughts on this point?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Elena