Setup a Web Server Using XAMPP
XAMPP is a free Apache distribution containing MariaDB, PHP, and Perl.
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Download and install XAMPP from the official website of Apache Friends. You can also install XAMPP via a Windows Terminal command: winget install ApacheFriends.Xampp.8.2
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After installation make sure that you have enabled all necessary PHP extensions in
extension=intl extension=mbstring extension=exif extension=mysqli
extension=openssl extension=zip
3. Start Apache from your XAMPP control panel (or restart the service
if it's already started for changes to have effect).
# Install LiteCart on XAMPP
XAMPP is preconfigured to display websites placed in the htdocs
directory. To install LiteCart simply download the [Web Installation](https://github.com/litecart/installer/tree/master/web)
file and put it in a new directory under htdocs e.g.
*c:\xampp\htdocs\litecart\*.
Navigate to ** to complete the installation.
# Dedicate a Hostname For Your LiteCart Installation
1. Open Notepad as an administrator and add your domain to your Windows
hosts file:
```conf C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts 127.0.0.1
litecart.local
2. In the configuration file
C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf. Add a new virtualhost
directive:
**C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf:**
```conf
ServerName litecart.local
DocumentRoot "X:\Path\To\LiteCart\public_html"
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
AllowOverride All
Require ip 127.0.0.1
Require ip ::1
3. Restart Apache and navigate to your new domain
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# Run PHP via FastCGI instead of CGI
1. Download FastCGI from [Apache Downloads](https://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi). Copy the
file *mod_fcgid.so* from the downloaded ZIP archive to the directory
*c:\xampp\apache\modules\*.
2. Edit *c:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-xampp.conf* and
**remove** the following lines:
**c:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-xampp.conf:**
```conf
SetEnv MIBDIRS "C:/xampp/php/extras/mibs"
SetEnv PHP_PEAR_SYSCONF_DIR "\xampp\php"
SetEnv PHPRC "\xampp\php"
LoadFile "C:/xampp/php/php8ts.dll" LoadFile "C:/xampp/php/libpq.dll"
LoadFile "C:/xampp/php/libsqlite3.dll" LoadModule php_module
"C:/xampp/php/php8apache2_4.dll"
#
2. PHP-CGI setup
3.
4.
5. SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-cgi
6.
7.
8. Action application/x-httpd-php-cgi "/php-cgi/php-cgi.exe"
9.
PHPINIDir "C:/xampp/php"
ScriptAlias /php-cgi/ "C:/xampp/php/"
AllowOverride None
Options None
Require all denied
Require all granted
SetHandler cgi-script
SetHandler None
3. Insert this new configuration directive:
**c:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-xampp.conf:**
```conf
# Load FastCGI module
LoadModule fcgid_module modules/mod_fcgid.so
# Default PHP FastCGI Configuration
FcgidInitialEnv PATH "c:/xampp/php81;C:/WINDOWS;C:/WINDOWS/system32;"
FcgidInitialEnv SystemRoot "C:/Windows"
FcgidInitialEnv SystemDrive "C:"
FcgidInitialEnv TEMP "C:/WINDOWS/Temp"
FcgidInitialEnv TMP "C:/WINDOWS/Temp"
FcgidInitialEnv windir "C:/WINDOWS"
FcgidIOTimeout 64
FcgidConnectTimeout 16
FcgidMaxRequestsPerProcess 1000
FcgidMaxProcesses 50
FcgidMaxRequestLen 8131072
#FcgidInitialEnv PHPRC "c:/xampp/php81/php.ini" #Uncomment for custom php.ini
FcgidInitialEnv PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS 1000
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