Introduction
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This is a portable Magento installation including test data. 
It is designed to be easily set up on any windows machine running from a USB key or folder.

IT IS NOT DESIGNED FOR PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS OR PUBLIC SERVERS

It is based upon XAMPP version 1.7.1 which is a PHP 5.2 version. 
I have opted to build on this version as most people's server will still be on 5.2x and also Magento seems to have some issue with PHP 5.3 at the time of creating this portable version.

The Magento version is 1.3.2.4 which was the latest version at the time of creating this portable version.

This portable Magento has been brought to you by Edmonds Commerce. 

We are going to use it on our Magento Training Courses.

www.edmondscommerce.co.uk


Instructions
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1. Go to http://github.com/edmondscommerce/XAMPP-Magento-Demo-Site and hit the download button

2. Select the tar.gz option for download

3. Download and install 7zip from here http://www.7-zip.org/
(the top one is standard, the bottom one is 64bit)

4. Right click the downloaded tar.gz file and select 7zip->extract here

5. That will create a tar file. Please right click that select 7zip extract here again.

7. That gives you the unpacked folder. Inside the folder is another folder called xampp. Please copy and paste that into the root of your C: drive.

8. Go into the xampp folder and find the orange icon for XAMPP control panel. Double click that to open the control panel.

9. Press [Start] next to both Apache and MySQL

10. Go to http://127.0.0.1/magento to see it running

11. Go to http://127.0.0.1/magento/admin to get to teh admin login screen:

user is demo
pass is 1magento


Have a good play around with it!


XAMPP Security
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A default XAMPP installation is not totally secure. This installation has already had the XAMPP security script run.

We suggest that you re run this script again to set your own password.
http://127.0.0.1/xampp/

Database:
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The MySQL user name is root
The password is edmondscommerce

Web Server:
'''''''''''

The xampp folder is protected by a htaccess password.
User: xampp
Pass: xampp


Magento Installation
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You can see the Magento installation by going to http://127.0.0.1/magento/

The admin is located at http://127.0.0.1/magento/admin/


admin username is: demo
admin pass is: 1magento

encryption key is: feba92617f928653ab0874d4e00797d2


Further Actions
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Correct configuration of XAMPP 

Edited htaccess file to uncomment the RewriteBase
plus messing about enabling and disabling it and refreshing caches in Magento until it works.

Tested Magento Connect, it looks like it is nearly working but not quite.