How to install Textpattern in XAMPP Windows

Textpattern is another simple but very powerful content management system available today. It was first developed by Dean Allen and was initially released on March 19, 2003. It is now currently being developed by Team Textpattern. Textpattern is main used as CMS and blog software. And for this tutorial, we are going to make a blog out of it. Download the Textpattern and XAMPP installers below to start.

Requirements:

• xampp-windows-x64-5.6.40-1-VC11-installer [download here]
• textpattern-4.8.8 [download here]

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

Table of Contents

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

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

XAMPP Installation

1. Open the XAMPP executable file. In the Warning regarding User Account Control, just ignore it and press OK to proceed.

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

3. In the Select Components, just leave it and press NEXT to proceed.

4. For the Installation folder, do not change its default value which is C:\xampp. Just press NEXT to continue.

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

6. We are now ready to go! Press NEXT to install XAMPP.

7. Wait for the installation to finish.

8. Done! You have installed XAMPP. Press Finish to exit the installer.

Opening Textpattern and running Apache and MySQL

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

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

3. Apache and MySQL are now running if you see 2 Stop buttons under Actions.

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

Copying and pasting Textpattern folder inside htdocs

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

2. Inside This PC, open C drive.

3. Then open xampp folder.

4. Inside xampp, open htdocs.

5. Paste textpattern folder inside htdocs.

Creating needed database for Textpattern installation via phpMyAdmin

1. We need a database to run Textpattern installation. To start, open your web browser and go to 127.0.0.1 and press ENTER.

2. Inside, click phpMyAdmin.

3. Inside phpMyAdmin, click Databases.

4. In the Create database, name it as "textpattern_db" and next to it, set the charset to utf8mb4_unicode_ci. Press Create to create your database.

5. In the Create table, name it as textpattern_table and set columns to 4. Press Go to create your table.

6. For structure, name it as textpattern 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.

Installing Textpattern website using localhost via web browser

1. We are now ready to install Textpattern. Open web browser again and go to 127.0.0.1/textpattern/textpattern/setup and press ENTER.

2. In the Please choose a language, select English and press Submit to proceed.

3. In the Set database details, do the following: MySQL user name - root. MySQL password - blank or none. MySQL server - localhost. MySQL database - textpattern_db. Create database? - No, I've created it already. Table prefix - blank or none. When done, press NEXT to proceed.

4. Under "Checking database connection", you should see the "✔ Connected" and "✔ Using textpattern_db (utf8mb4)" notifications. Below it, you will also see the "Creating config.php file" which needed for the installation. Just press Download to download the config.php file.

5. After downloading config.php file, copy it and go to This PC > C drive > xampp > htdocs > textpattern > textpattern > and inside it paste your config.php file.

6. When done, click the "I did it" button to proceed.

7. In the Creating database tables, do the following: Your full name - Administrator. Your email address - enter a valid email address. Choose a login name - admin. Choose a password - your desired password (do not forget it). Under Site configuration, do the following: URL of your site - http://127.0.0.1/textpattern. Admin-side theme - Core: Hive. Public theme - Four Point Eight (4.8.8). When done, press NEXT to proceed.

8. Done! You have successfully installed Textpattern website.

9. For security reasons, you need to immediately delete the setup folder inside your Textpattern directory.

10. To delete the setup folder, just go to This PC > C drive > xampp > htdocs > textpattern > textpattern and find and delete "setup" folder.

Opening Textpattern website homepage

1. To open your Textpattern website homepage, just go to 127.0.0.1/textpattern or localhost/textpattern. Below is the sample of Textpattern default homepage.

2. Below is another example of Textpattern website which I already edited the homepage.

Accessing Textpattern website admin page

1. To open your admin account, just go to 127.0.0.1/textpattern/textpattern/index.php and press ENTER.

2. Enter your Textpattern admin username and password and press Login to proceed.

3. Below is the sample of a Textpattern website administration page.

Thank you for reading this tutorial guys! If you have a question, just leave a comment below. Cheers!