How to install PHP-Nuke in XAMPP Windows 11

PHP-Nuke is a content management system that you can use to create news website. It was developed by Francisco Burzi. And for this post, we are going to create a website using this cool CMS. But first, download the XAMPP file and PHP-Nuke installers below. I also provided the download links for your convenience.

Requirements:

• xampp-win32-1.6.3-installer [download here]
• phpnuke-988b71c099f0 [download here]

After downloading both files, continue to the tutorials below.

Table of Contents

• XAMPP Installation
• Opening XAMPP Control Panel and running Apache and MySQL
• Copying and pasting PHP-Nuke installation folder to HTDOCS
• Creating a Database for PHP-Nuke installation using phpMyAdmin
• Installing PHP-Nuke using XAMPP localhost via web browser
• Opening PHP-Nuke website homepage
• Opening PHP-Nuke website admin page

Here are the steps on how to install PHP-Nuke using XAMPP in Windows pc

XAMPP Installation

1. Open the XAMPP file that you downloaded. In the Installer Language, select English and press OK to proceed.

2. In the XAMPP installation welcome page, just press NEXT to proceed.

3. In the Choose Install Location, do not change it and press NEXT to proceed.

4. In the XAMPP Options, uncheck all options and press Install to start the installation.

5. Wait for the installation to finish.

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

Opening XAMPP Control Panel and running Apache and MySQL

1. To run XAMPP, you can click its shortcut on your desktop or go to Start and search for xampp. Inside the control panel application, click the Start buttons for Apache and MySQL.

2. You will see Running notifications on both MySQL and Apache now.

Copying and pasting PHP-Nuke installation folder to HTDOCS

1. Extract the phpnuke zip file that you downloaded. Rename the extracted folder as phpnuke. Make sure all its contents are directly inside your phpnuke folder. Copy your folder. Go to This PC.

2. Inside This PC, open your C drive.

3. Inside C, open xampp folder.

4. Inside xampp, open htdocs folder.

5. And inside htdocs, paste your phpnuke folder there.

Creating a Database for PHP-Nuke installation using phpMyAdmin

1. We are now going to create a database needed for our PHP-nuke installation. Open your web browser and go to 127.0.0.1 and press ENTER. In the select language, click English.

2. Inside XAMPP, under Tools click phpMyAdmin.

3. In the Create new database, name your database as phpnuke_db and next to it set the Collation to utf8_unicode_ci and press Create.

4. In the Create new table on database phpnuke_db, name your table as phpnuke_table and set the number of fields to 4. Press Go to proceed.

5. Next, name your Field as phpnuke and set the Type to INT.

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

7. Save your work.

8. And you just created a database for our PHP-nuke website installation.

Installing PHP-Nuke using XAMPP localhost via web browser

1. We are now ready to install our website. Open your web browser and go to 127.0.0.1/phpnuke/html and press ENTER.

2. To continue with the installation, just press the "web installation" link.

3. Under Pre-installation check, just press NEXT to proceed.

4. Under License, just press NEXT again to proceed.

5. Under STEP 1 - MySQL database configuration, do the following: Host Name - localhost. MySQL User Name - root. MySQL Password - blank or none. MySQL Database Name - phpnuke_db. Press NEXT to proceed.

6. Localhost will confirm if the settings are correct, just press OK to proceed.

7. Under Step 2 - Enter the name of your PHP-Nuke site, just name your website and press NEXT to proceed.

8. In STEP 3 - Super User Administrator Creation, do the following: Admin ID - admin (given). Your E-mail - enter a valid email address. Admin password - enter desired password (do not forget it). Press NEXT to continue.

9. Done! You have successfully created a website using PHP-Nuke CMS.

10. But, to make your website fully functional, you need to delete the install folder located inside your phpnuke folder.

11. Go to C > xampp > htdocs > phpnuke and then find and delete the install folder.

Opening PHP-Nuke website homepage

1. To open your PHP-Nuke website homepage, just go to 127.0.0.1/phpnuke/html or localhost/phpnuke/html.

Opening PHP-Nuke website admin page

1. To open your admin account. Just go to 127.0.0.1/html/admin.php.

2. Enter your admin username and password and press LOGIN to proceed.

3. Below is the sample of PHP-Nuke website administration page.

That's it! I hope you have learned a lot while doing this tutorial. If you have a question, just leave a comment below. Thank you!