How to install Dotclear in XAMMP Windows 11

Dotclear is an open-source blog publishing application developed by Olivier Meunier in year 2022. And for this post, I will show you how to make a website using this cool CMS.

But before anything else, make sure to download the two given files below before starting doing the given tutorials below.

• XAMPP 8.0.x, download here [via Mediafire]
• dotclear-2.23.1, download here [via Mediafire]

Table of Contents

• XAMPP installation on Windows 11
• Running XAMPP Control Panel's Apache and MySQL
• Copying Dotclear installer to HTDOCS folder
• Creating Dotclear Database on XAMPP phpMyAdmin
• Dotclear installation via Localhost or 127.0.0.1
• Accessing Dotclear website home page
• Accessing Dotclear website ADMIN account

Here are the steps on how to install Dotclear in XAMPP using Windows 11 pc

XAMPP installation on Windows 11

1. After downloading XAMPP, install it. Under Question regarding antivirus, just click YES to proceed.

2. In the Warning about User Account Control (UAC), click OK.

3. Now, in the Setup - XAMPP, click NEXT.

4. Under Select Components, click NEXT again.

5. Click NEXT also in the Installation folder.

6. Select English in the Language, then press NEXT.

7. You are now ready to install XAMPP, click NEXT to proceed.

8. Wait for the installation and unpacking to finish.

9. You have successfully installed XAMPP. Uncheck the "Do you want to start the Control Panel now?" button and click Finish to exit.

Running XAMPP Control Panel's Apache and MySQL

1. To open XAMPP, you can easily click its shortcut on your desktop. Or you can go to search and type xampp and press ENTER.

2. Inside XAMPP Control Panel, click the Start buttons for Apache and MySQL.

3. Apache and MySQL should be both running now when you see both their buttons are showing Stop.

4. If a Windows Security Alert appears, just press "Allow access" to proceed.

Copying Dotclear installer to HTDOCS folder

1. Now, we need to copy and paste the Dotclear installation folder to htdocs folder inside xampp directory. Make sure to extract first the file and name your folder as dotclear for this tutorial. Go to This PC.

2. Inside This PC, click your C drive.

3. Inside your C drive, find and click xampp.

4. Inside xampp folder, click htdocs.

5. Now, paste your dotclear folder inside htdocs.

Creating Dotclear Database on XAMPP phpMyAdmin

1. Open your internet browser. In the address bar, type 127.0.0.1 and press ENTER.

2. Now, find and click phpMyAdmin.

3. Inside phpMyAdmin, click Databases.

4. In the Create database, name your database as dotclear_db for this tutorial and do not change the utf8mb4_general_ci. Press Create to continue.

5. In the Create new table, name your table as dotclear_table and do not change change 4 in the number of columns. Press Create again.

6. For Structure name, name it dotclear. Type is already set to INT.

7. For Collation, find and select utf8_unicode_ci and leave all the other fields as blank.

8. Save your work.

Dotclear installation via Localhost or 127.0.0.1

1. Open your internet browser again (e.g. Chrome, Firefox, etc.). In the address bar, enter 127.0.0.1/dotclear and press ENTER.

2. Inside Dotclear installation Wizard, in the System information, Database host name is local, database name is dotclear_db, username is root, password is blank. Enter a valid email address. Press Continue to proceed.

3. In the User information, just fill up your First and Last name. Just re-enter your email address. For username and password, set your username to admin and enter your desired password. Do not forget these two because you will be needing both of them later to access your admin account.

4. Wait for a moment and your Dotclear website is now installed.

Accessing Dotclear website home page

1. To access your Dotclear website homepage, just go to 127.0.0.1/dotclear or localhost/dotclear.

Accessing Dotclear website ADMIN account

1. To access your Dotclear admin login page, just go to 127.0.0.1/admin/auth.php and press ENTER. Enter the username and password you created earlier and press the log in button to proceed.

2. Inside your admin account, you will see there settings and configurations that are only available to you as the owner of your Dotclear website.

And you just successfully created your Dotclear website free and easy. I do hope you have learned a lot while doing this tutorial guys.

If you have a question, do not hesitate to leave a comment below. Thank you!