I often get request from people who want to quickly install ChurchInfo on a computer running Windows. This is a great way to get started and experiment, although the real power of ChurchInfo is best appreciated when it is running on a server and accessed from multiple different computers. I use this procedure to install ChurchInfo for experimenting or development on a Windows laptop.
I have had good luck hopping back and forth between this stand-alone installation as a real server, simply using phpMyAdmin to back up and restore the database.
Here are the step-by-step instructions:
Install xampp for Windows. This provides Apache, PHP and MySQL. I tell it to run Apache and MySQL as services.
Unpack the churchinfo directory from the distribution into the directory C:\xampp\htdocs\churchinfo
Use Firefox or Chrome to browse to: http://localhost
Click the phpMyAdmin link
Select the Privileges tab
Press Add a new user
Set User name to “churchinfo”, Host to “localhost”, Password to “churchinfo”, Re-type to “churchinfo”, enable “create database and assign all priviledges; them press Go (bottom-right)
Select the new churchinfo database from the link to the left
Select the Import tab
Press Browse…
Navigate to C:\xampp\htdocs\churchinfo\SQL\Install.sql and choose this file
Press the Go button
Now browse to: http://localhost/churchinfo
Log in with user name “admin”, password “churchinfoadmin”
It will ask you to change the password immediately.
Muchas gracias. ?Como puedo iniciar sesion?
If you followed the instructions you should be able to log in as it says in the last step: user name “admin” password “churchinfoadmin”.
per Google Translate:
Si siguió las instrucciones, debería poder iniciar sesión como dice en el último paso: nombre de usuario “admin” contraseña “churchinfoadmin”.
Mike