If your download does not start automatically, click the green text that says click here at the top of the page.
If you receive an alert that informs you that your Antivirus software may interfere with the installation, temporarily disable your antivirus software and click Yes to continue the installation.
On Mac, when you see the XAMPP icon with an arrow pointing to the Applications folder, click and drag XAMPP. app to the Applications folder as indicated to copy it to your Applications folder.
On Mac, click Start under the General tab. Then click the Services tab and select Apache and click Start. Then select MySQL and click Start. you may see a couple of Windows Messages after clicking Start. There are times when you may click on “Start” to start the Web Server and it does not want to start. This is usually due to another program using the same port as the webserver. The most common conflict is with Skype. If your web server will not start and you are running Skype, close Skype and try to start the webserver again. To change the port number, click Config next to “Apache” and open the “httpd. conf” file. Then change the port number next to “Listen” to any free port number. Then open the “httpd-ssl. conf” file under “Config” and change the port number next to “Listen” to any free port number. Click Netstat to see a list of what port numbers are being used by each program. [2] X Research source
Click Databases to see a list of databases. Enter the name of a database where it says “Database name”. Click Create.
Click User accounts. Click Edit Privileges next to “Local Host” with the username “root”. Click Change password. Enter a password in the spaces provided. Click Go in the lower-right corner.
Click Explorer to the right in the XAMPP Control Panel. Open the “phpMyAdmin” folder. Open the “config. inc. php” file in NotePad or another text editor. Change “config” to “cookie” next to “$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘auth_type’] = ‘config’;” Change “true” to “false” next to “On $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘AllowNoPassword’] = true;” Click File. Click Save.
