devdirectory

Welcome, Follow the instructions here very carefully to set up devdirectly on your local server (Xampp or Wampp)

Step 1: Make sure you have xampp or wampp installed on your PC, if you dont already, do that before you go on.

Step 2: Goto your 'C:/' directory from file explorer, then to the 'XAMPP' folder, then to the 'htdocs' folder.

Step 3: Create a folder named 'Devdirectory'. mindfull of the CAPS 'D', its case sensitive.

Step 4: Copy all the extracted files in the repo you cloned and paste it in the 'htdocs' folder.

Step 5: Open your xampp control panel and start 'Apache' and 'MySQL'

Step 6: Open your browser and type the url 'localhost/Devdirectory/' to browse the site, which is now hosted on your local server 'xampp'.

How to import the Database (!important)

Without importing the database file in your server, you'll get various errors and the site wont run

Follow the instructions carefuly to setup the database

Step 1: Go into the DB folder, you'll find the create.sql and db.sql file

Step 2: Now open your browser or a new tab if browser if already opened and type 'localhost/phpmyadmin' and hit enter...

make sure you xampp control panel is still open, also your 'apache' and 'mySQL' is still running

Step 3: When phpmyadmin opens up, on the top nav, click on 'import', and then click on 'Choose file'.

Step 4: Select the create.sql file and import.

Step 5: Once it is imported select the 'devdirectory' database among the list by the left.

Step 6: Now once the 'devdirectory' database is selected, click import again and now import the db.sql file

Step 5: Once import is done, you are set and ready to go. You can now browse the site.

NOTE: You need to import database before you can browse the site. and the site can only be browsed with your local sever on.

and through the address 'localhost/Devdirectory'.

NOTICE: The Databse file is subjected to change as i work, but i will inform you if somthing is changed, so you import the new db file.

let me know if you dont understand any part.