Installing XOOPS
Download the latest stable release of XOOPS to your local computer. We will use XOOPS 2.0.15, since that was the latest stable release available for download at the time of writing this book.
Uncompress the XOOPS.zip
file to a folder on your computer, as shown below:
![](https://static.packt-cdn.com/products/9781904811282/graphics/1904811280_02_06.jpg)
I like to use Windows Explorer to create a folder called C:\Download into which I extract all files downloaded from the Internet.
The only folder you need is the htdocs folder; other folders are not needed for a new installation of XOOPS, so you can ignore those.
For a local installation of XOOPS, simply copy the contents of the htdocs
folder into a new folder inside the \xampplite\htdocs
folder. This is useful if you decide to test multiple installations of XOOPS, each with a separate website. Thus, you may be testing the following websites, which are all running a copy of XOOPS independent of each other:
\xampplite\htdocs\website1
\xampplite\htdocs\website2
\xampplite\htdocs\website3
For a hosted installation...