HOWTO Install eyeOS on Windows XP
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This HOWTO will show you how to Install a full eyeOS server on Windows XP .
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Information about installing eyeOS on this system
Officially Supported Server: Yes
Microsoft Word documents compatibility: No
Previous notes
- All you need to install eyeOS on this system is a working Internet connection.
- Note that eyeOS needs a Web Server to work. In this tutorial we have choosed and shown how to install AppServ, a great Open Source package that will install both the Apache Web Server, the PHP system and their connectors in a easy and automatic way. If you have already installed a web server, please go to Step 8.
- We will use Mozilla Firefox as default browser for this tutorial. You may also use Internet Explorer 7 or higer (note that IE6 is no loger officially supported).
Step by step HOWTO
Step 1
Log in into your Windows account
Step 2
Open your browser and go to http://www.appservnetwork.com
Once there, download the latest version available (the one which uses PHP 5.x. You can download it from the front page.
Step 3
Once the download finishes, double-click the installer and follow the instructions:
Step 4
When you'll be promted what to install, feel free to install all the packages. However, to install eyeOS, you only need Apache and PHP, so you can just install that two packages.
Step 5
During the install you will have to provide a name for your server and admin e-mail. Note that the server name must be a single word (no spaces).
Step 6
When the installer finishes, it will ask you what to launch. Mark only Start Apache.
Step 7
Time to download eyeOS. Open your browser and navigate to http://www.eyeos.org/downloads. Download the latest eyeOS version in it's .zip version (If you decide to download the .tar.gz version it will still work, but you'll need a third party extractor to extract the package).
Step 8
Uncompress the downloaded package so you will obtain a folder named eyeOS with 4 to 6 files and folders (depending on eyeOS version).
Open the File Explorer and go to YOUR_DRIVE_LETTER:\\AppServ\\www.
Step 9
Move the eyeOS folder to YOUR_DRIVE_LETTER:\\AppServ\\www. Note that if the extractor has created another folder before the eyeOS folder, you will have to move that last one, the one which contains 4-6 files inside.
Step 10
Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost/eyeOS/ and fill the required information to finish the installation!
From now, you can access your eyeOS server from http://localhost/eyeOS/ from your local computer, or from http://YOUR_IP/eyeOS/ from your private network or even from Internet (if you have your router configured to redirect the port 80 to your computer.
