Basic installation help

[ranthese]

I'm using Windows XP and installed WAMP5 (www.wampserver.com/, which includes Apache, MySql, and PHP).

Not sure where I'm going wrong in the Pligg installation procedure.


I unzipped Pligg into C:\Server\wamp\www\pligg

www is the localhost dir.

Rename /libs/dbconnect.php.default to /libs/dbconnect.php

Modified config.php
define('my_base_url', 'http://localhost'); // the base url to your site.
define('my_pligg_base', '/pligg'); // if installed in a subfolder. leave blank if installed in root.

Then since I'm working on my own computer, I assume I don't have to chmod the files on my end?

I go to install.php and I see some gibberish on the top and bottom like:

'; $canContinue = DoesExist ( $canContinue, '../libs/options.php', 0777, '../libs/options.php' ); echo '
'; echo '
'; echo '
'; echo '
'; echo '
'; if ($canContinue) { ?>

'; echo 'If /libs/options.php does not exist, then rename /libs/options.default.php to /libs/options.php'; } function DoesExist ( $canContinue, $file, $mode, $desc ) { @chmod( $file, $mode ); $good = file_exists( $file ) ? 1 : 0; Message ( $desc.' does exist.: ', $good ); return ( $canContinue && $good ); } function isWriteable ( $canContinue, $file, $mode, $desc ) { @chmod( $file, $mode ); $good = is_writable( $file ) ? 1 : 0; Message ( $desc.' is writable: ', $good ); return ( $canContinue && $good ); } function Message( $message, $good ) { if ( $good ) $yesno = 'Yes'; else $yesno = 'No'; echo ''. $message .''. $yesno .''; } ?>

Does this mean there's an error? The next page has some more gibberish, a submit button, and two back buttons. And the installation runs to the third page but the admin isn't working.

I want to get something going on the web, and I think I'll end up putting it on a hosted server, but wanted to get things set up on my side to understand more about how it works, design a new css, and mess around with it.

Sorry, I'm a complete WAMP noob.