Howto Install Concrete5 on Windows

Install Concrete5 (5.7.5.8) CMS on windows ( XAMPP 5.6.21 )

Concrete5 is an open source ( MIT software license) content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets, written in PHP programming language.
It was designed for ease of use, for users with a minimum of technical skills. It enables users to edit site content directly from the page.
Concrete5 code is based on Model-View-Controller architecture and object-oriented programming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete5

Latest Tutorial – Install Concrete5 ( 5.7.5.9 ) on windows 7 x64 localhost ( XAMPP 5.6.24 ) – open source PHP content management system ( CMS )

Solving:

1. Download and install XAMPP 5.6.21 from official site:
https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html

2. Download Concrete5 (5.7.5.8) CMS installer from official site:
https://www.concrete5.org/download

3. Create folder \concrete5 XAMPP htdocs folder
C:\xampp\htdocs\concrete5
and copy all files from downloaded Concrete5 (5.7.5.8) CMS .zip source

4. Run XAMPP Control Panel
– start Apache
– start Database

5. Open in browser following url to start Concrete5 (5.7.5.8) CMS web installation
http://localhost/concrete5
– Click “Choose Language”

6. “Requirements Check” page – click “Continue to Installation”

7. “Site / Database / Admin Configuration ” page

Now we need to create Database for Concrete5 (5.7.5.8) CMS

1) Open phpMyAdmin in new browser tab (or window 🙂 ) – http://localhost/phpmyadmin
2) Open SQL tab
3) Execute following query

CREATE DATABASE `concrete5`
DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

CREATE USER ‘concrete5-owner’@’localhost’;
CREATE USER ‘concrete5-owner’@’127.0.0.1’;
CREATE USER ‘concrete5-owner’@’::1′;

SET PASSWORD
FOR ‘concrete5-owner’@’localhost’ = PASSWORD(‘concrete5123$%’);
SET PASSWORD
FOR ‘concrete5-owner’@’127.0.0.1’ = PASSWORD(‘concrete5123$%’);
SET PASSWORD
FOR ‘concrete5-owner’@’::1′ = PASSWORD(‘concrete5123$%’);

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON
`concrete5`.* TO ‘concrete5-owner’@’localhost’ WITH GRANT OPTION;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON
`concrete5`.* TO ‘concrete5-owner’@’127.0.0.1’ WITH GRANT OPTION;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON
`concrete5`.* TO ‘concrete5-owner’@’::1′ WITH GRANT OPTION;

Go back to Concrete5 (5.7.5.8) CMS installarion page – fill all fields
( use
database name – concrete5
user – concrete5-owner
password ( for user ) – concrete5123$%
)
and click “Install concrete5”