How to install Habari CMS in XAMPP Windows 11

Habari is a free and open source content management system. It was initially released on April 3, 2007 by Habari Community. If you are a blogger, Habari suits you because this CMS is blog engine. And for this tutorial, we are going to make one out of it. But you need to download the necessary files first to be able to start making one. I provided the links below.

Requirement:

• XAMPP 5.6.x, download here [via Mediafire]
• Habari-0.9.1, download here [via Mediafire]

After downloading all the files, continue doing the listed tutorials below.

Table of Content

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

Here are the steps on how to install Habari in XAMPP using Windows

XAMPP installation on Windows 11

1. Open the XAMPP file that you downloaded earlier. If a Warning appears, just press OK to proceed.

2. Under Setup - XAMPP, just click NEXT.

3. In the Select Components, click NEXT also.

4. Same for the Installation folder, just leave it and click NEXT.

5. In the Bitnami for XAMPP, click NEXT again.

6. We are now ready to install XAMPP, click NEXT to proceed.

7. Wait for the installation to finish.

8. When done, click Finish to exit the installer.

Running XAMPP Control Panel's Apache and MySQL

1. To run XAMPP, you can either click its shortcut icon in your desktop or go to Start and search for xampp and press ENTER. Inside XAMPP Control Panel, click the Start buttons for Apache and MySQL.

2. You will see two Stop buttons. Apache and MySQL are both running now.

3. If a Windows Security Alert appears, just click on Allow access to exit.

Copying Habari installer to HTDOCS folder

1. Go back to the Habari zip file that you also downloaded earlier. Extract it and rename the extracted folder as "habari". Make sure all the contents of the folder are not inside a sub-folder. When done, copy your habari folder. Go to Start and search for "this pc" and press ENTER.

2. Inside This PC, open your C drive.

3. Inside C, click on xampp folder.

4. Now, find and open htdocs folder.

5. Paste your habari folder inside htdocs.

Creating Habari Database on XAMPP phpMyAdmin

1. We are now going to create a database for our Habari installation. Open your web browser and go to 127.0.0.1.

2. Inside, click on phpMyAdmin.

3. Inside phpMyAdmin, click on Databases.

4. In the Create database, name it as habari_db and next to it set the value to utf8mb4_unicode_ci and press Create button.

5. In the Create table, name your table as habari_table and set the columns to 4. Press Go to proceed.

6. In the Structure, name it as habari and set Type to INT.

7. For Collation, set it to utf8_unicode_ci and leave all the other fields blank.

8. Save your Database.

Habari installation via Localhost or 127.0.0.1

1. We are now ready to install our Habari website. Open your web browser and go to 127.0.0.1/habari.

2. In Language, select en-us. For Database Setup do the following: Database Type - mysql. Database Host - localhost. Username - root. Password - blank or none. Database name - habari_db. When done, click on Check Database Connection.

3. You will see "OK" in some of the fields on Database Setup, this means that you can proceed to the next step below.

4. Under Site Configuration, do the following: Site name - Your site name. Username - admin. Password - your admin account password. Email - input a valid email address.

5. In the Theme Selection, select any theme that is available. For this tutorial, I selected Charcoal 0.5.

6. In the Plugin Activation, just select all of it.

7. Press the Install Habari to continue with the installation.

8. Done! You have successfully created a blog using Habari CMS for free.

Accessing Habari website home page

1. To open your Habari website homepage, just go to 127.0.0.1/habari.

Accessing Habari website ADMIN account

1. To open your Habari admin account, just click on Login link or go 127.0.0.1/habari/auth/login.

2. In the login page, input your username and password. Click login to proceed.

3. Inside your Habari administration page, you will see options, settings, themes, plugins, and many more links that you can use to modify your Habari website. This is only available to you as owner and admin of your site. So, do not share your admin username and password to others.

Thank you for reading this tutorial guys. I do hope that you have learned a lot while doing this. If you have a question, you can leave a comment below. Cheers!