Set-up Info for Installing Ushahidi v3 (Lamu) on Windows 8.1 using XAMPP

Lamu-setup.md

1. #####Clone repo git clone --recursive https://github.com/ushahidi/Lamu

2. #####Initialize/Update submodules git submodule update --init --recursive

3. #####Use composer to install dependencies You can get composer here

• Open cmd and cd to the Ushahidi v3 directory
• run composer install

This might take a while... 4. #####Create Database On phpmyadmin Open the sql editor and run

CREATE DATABASE <your-database-name>;
GRANT ALL ON <your-database-name>.* to <your-username>@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '<your-password>';

5. #####Edit database.php

• Open application/config/database.php
• Edit it so that hostname, database, username and password match those of the database you just created
• Copy application/config/database.php to application/config/environments/development/database.php

6. #####Initialize Database

• Open cmd
• cd to Ushahidi v3 directory
• run php minion --task=migrations:run --up

You need to make sue php is in your PATH for this to work

7. #####Edit .htaccess

• Open httpdocs/template.htaccess and rename to .htaccess
• Edit RewriteBase to the httpdocs directory

This might not be the same for everyone

e.g. my lamu installation is at C:/xampp/htdocs/lamu

my apache is configured to serve documents in `C:/xampp/htdocs`

Therefore, my `RewriteBase` is `/lamu/httpdocs`

8. #####Edit init.php

• Open application/config/init.php
• Edit base_url to match your .htaccess RewriteBase
• Copy application/config/init.php to application/config/environments/development/init.php

9. #####Open deployment http://localhost/lamu/httpdocs/

Hi there,

I am trying to install Ushahidi V3 in XAMPP. I cloned the repo, but have a question: which folder should I move to at step .3 of the procedure? Where is the cloned repo stored?

Thank you very much for your time.

Regards,
Vittorio