How to install Kajona in XAMPP Windows 11

Kajona CMS is another free content management system developed by Kajona Community. It was first released in 2004. Development on Kajona stopped on October 7, 2019. As you can see, I wasn't able to install its last stable release due to errors. Its last stable release was on June 8, 2017 with version 6.2. For this tutorial, we are going to install Kajona 4.7 version. To begin, you need to download Kajona and XAMPP installers below.

Requirements:

• xampp-windows-x64-5.6.40-1-VC11-installer [download here]
• kajona_4.7 [download here]

Assuming that you downloaded the files above, continue to the tutorials below.

Table of Contents

• XAMPP Installation
• Opening XAMPP and running Apache and MySQL
• Copying and pasting Kajona folder inside htdocs
• Creating empty needed database for Kajona installation via phpmyAdmin
• Installing Kajona website using localhost via web browser
• Opening Kajona website homepage
• Accessing Kajona website admin page

Here are the steps on how to install Kajona website using XAMPP in Windows pc

XAMPP Installation

1. Open the XAMPP file that you downloaded. If a Warning about User Account Control appears, just press OK to proceed.

2. Under Setup - XAMPP, just press NEXT to proceed.

3. In the Select Components, press NEXT again to proceed.

4. In the Installation folder, do not change the C:\xampp location, just leave it and press NEXT to proceed.

5. In the Bitnami for XAMPP, just leave it also and press NEXT to proceed.

6. We are now ready to install XAMPP, press NEXT to start.

7. Wait for the installation to finish.

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

Opening XAMPP and running Apache and MySQL

1. To run XAMPP, just go to This PC > C driver > xampp > and open xampp-control.exe file.

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

3. Apache and MySQL are both running now if you see two Stop buttons under Actions.

4. If there is a Windows Security Alert, just press Allow access to exit the alert.

Copying and pasting Kajona folder inside htdocs

1. Extract the Kajona zip file that you downloaded and rename the extracted folder as "kajona". Copy your kajona folder and go to This PC.

2. Inside This PC, open your C drive.

3. Inside C, open xampp folder.

3. Inside xampp, open htdocs.

4. Paste your kajona folder inside htdocs.

Creating needed database for Kajona installation via phpmyAdmin

1. We are now creating the needed database for Kajona installation. To start, open your web browser and go to 127.0.0.1 and press ENTER.

2. Inside, click phpMyAdmin.

3. Then inside phpMyAdmin, click Databases.

4. In the Create database, name it as kajona_db and next to it, set charset to utf8mb4_unicode_ci and press Create button to proceed.

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

6. For structure, name it as kajona and set INT for the Type.

7. Set Collation to utf8_unicode_ci and leave all the other fields blank.

8. Save your database.

Installing Kajona website using localhost via web browser

1. We are now going to install Kajona. To start, open your web browser again and go to 127.0.0.1/kajona/installer.php and press ENTER.

2. In the Welcome page, make sure all the needed php-modules are given and loaded. When done, press NEXT STEP to proceed.

3. Under Setup database-access do the following: Database server - localhost. Database user - root. Database password - blank or none. Database name - kajona_db. Table prefix - kajona_ and Database driver - MySQL. When done, press SAVE TO CONFIG to save your settings and continue.

4. Under Setup admin-user do the following: Username - admin. Password - blank or none. Email - enter a valid email address. When done, press CREATE ACCOUNT to proceed.

5. In the Choose installation mode, click Automatic installation.

6. Wait for sometime. When the page loaded and it loaded with errors (like the image below), then just click the Refresh or reload button to proceed.

7. Done! You have successfully installed Kajona website.

8. But first, we need to make the config.php file inside our Kajona folder to set back the write permission to read-only. And we also need to delete the installer.php file which is also inside our Kajona folder. Continue to STEP 9.

9. To set back the write permission of config.php file to read only, do the following: Go to This PC > xampp > htdocs > kajona > project > system > config > and open config.php file with Notepad.

10. At the bottom of the your Notepad, add the following line of code and save your Notepad: chmod('C:\xampp\htdocs\kajona\project\system\config\config.php', 777); 

11. To delete the installer.php file, go to This PC > C drive > xampp > htdocs > kajona and delete the installer.php file.

Opening Kajona website homepage

1. To open your Kajona website homepage, just go to 127.0.0.1/kajona or localhost/kajona.

Accessing Kajona website admin page

1. To open your Kajona admin account, go to 127.0.0.1/kajona/admin. Enter your admin username and password and press LOGIN to proceed.

2. Below is the example of your Kajona administration account.

Thank you for reading this post guys. If you have any question, do not hesitate to leave a comment below. Cheers!