I’ve been fooling around with Omeka for two years now – and it’s time to get serious. I’ve decided to try and set up a whole test environment on my local machine so that I can try to do more customizations.
- Download XAMPP (https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html) and follow the standard installation process for XAMPP.
- Download Omeka (http://omeka.org/download/)
- Install Omeka (http://omeka.org/codex/Installation)
- Create a MySQL database and user.
- I went to http://localhost/phpmyadmin
- Clicked “Databases” tab and created a new database.
- Clicked on that database, then the “Privileges” tab, then created a new user.
- Important stuff from this step: database name, user name, user password.
- Extract the Omeka Download into the XAMPP htdocs folder (in my case, C:\xampp\htdocs). I renamed this “north” to relate to a project I’m working on now.
- Update the db.ini file here (C:\xampp\htdocs\north) with the information from the steps above.
- Open a browser and head to http://localhost/north
- Complete the installation prompts.
- Create a MySQL database and user.
I ran into two problems that I wanted to fix. First, on the main install screen I got the following warning:
To Fix this problem, navigate to C:\xampp\php and edit the php.ini file. Uncomment the following line
extension=php_fileinfo.dll
by removing the “;” from the start of the line. Then restart the Apache server through the XAMPP interface. Problem resolved!
The second problem was getting the image magick extension installed. This proved to be a major problem and one that is still unresolved. However, because I had an active installation, I found a solution by simply copying the SQL database from my live webhost to my local host and then copying files from that server to my local machine. This allows me to do local changes without having that extension installed. Ideal? No! But functional.