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Chapter 2. Setting up the Development Environment
In this chapter we will cover how to install Mambo on a local machine running in an Apache/MySQL/PHP (AMP) environment. We will not cover the installation of AMP here; you can find a walkthrough of installing the XAMPP package in Appendix A. XAMPP is a free software package that includes PHP, MySQL, Apache, and much more, and is a quick way to get yourself a working AMP development environment.
Since in this chapter we are only dealing with creating a local installation for testing purposes, we shall postpone the coverage of how to deploy and set up Mambo on a remote web server until Chapter 11.
The steps to install and configure Mambo are simple:
- Download and extract the Mambo files.
- Copy the files to the web server root.
- Step through the screens of the Mambo web installer.
- Create another, less powerful database user to run the site under.
- Remove the
installationdirectory. - Test it out!
Let's get started.