*** THE XAMPP PORTABLE VERSION IS SELF-CONTAINED !!! * 6 1- CHANGE THE LETTER “DISK DRIVE” ON THIS USB KEY FOR A “W” (THIS PATH MUST CORRESPOND TO THE ONE INDICATED IN THE APACHE CONFIGURATION: httpd.conf * 1). 2- INSERT "amcdev.local" IN THE HOSTS FILE OF YOUR COMPUTER * 3. 3- CLOSE / UNINSTALL THE OTHER LOCALHOST SERVERS ON YOUR COMPUTER TEMPORARILY (OR FREE THE PORTS 80/3306 / ETC ...). 4- UNINSTALL XAMPP FROM THE COMPUTER AND DELETE THE CONTENTS OF THE XAMPP FOLDER FROM THE KEY 5- REINSTALL XAMPP ON THE KEY ONLY, BEING CAREFUL TO USE THE FOLLOWING FILE: W: \ XAMMP_ESSENTIALS \ _XAMPP_SETUP \ xampp-portable-win32-5.6.40-0-VC11-installer.exe 6- COPY THE TABLES (amcdev_api AND amcdev_dev) AND THE DATABASE, BY COPIING THE "W: ​​\ XAMMP_ESSENTIALS \ _XAMMP_CONF \ mysql \ data" TO "W: \ XAMPP \ mysql \ data" FOLDER 7- OPEN xampp-control AS ADMINISTRATOR AND OPEN IT IN FULL SCREEN MODE (EITHER SHORTCUT OR EXECUTABLE). 8- MAKE SURE THE WEBSITE DOMAIN NAME ("amcdev.local") IS WRITTEN IN THE APACHE CONFIGURATION FOR VHOSTS: httpd-vhosts.conf * 2. 9- START APACHE, START MYSQL, AND VISIT http: // localhost 10- xampp-control WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO DO IF THERE IS AN ERROR IN RED. 11- ALL CONFIGURATION FILES (httpd.conf, httpd-vhosts.conf, my.ini, php.ini, config.inc.php, etc ...) can be copied from their corresponding folders from the directory: "W: \ XAMMP_ESSENTIALS \ _XAMMP_CONF" This directory corresponds to an old installation of the functional xampp server. 12- A COPY OF THE “amcdev.ca” DEPOSIT IS ALREADY ON THE KEY, IN THE “WWW” FOLDER. 13- TO UPDATE THE DEPOSIT FILES ON THE KEY, USE THE WINDOWS CONSOLE (CMD). EXECUTE THE FOLLOWING FUNCTIONS, AFTER GOING TO THE "W: ​​\ WWW \ dev_2021_11_02" DIRECTORY a) svn cleanup b) svn up 14- CLICK ON THE "ADMIN" BUTTON TO SEE PHPINFO, AND OR PHPMYADMIN. 15- THE "amcdev.local" SITE SHOULD WORK WITHOUT PROBLEM. * 1- W: \ XAMPP \ apache \ conf \ httpd.conf * 2- W: \ XAMPP \ apache \ conf \ extra \ httpd-vhosts.conf * 3- C: \ Windows \ System32 \ drivers \ etc \ hosts * 4- *** ALWAYS DISCARD THE htdocs FOLDER AND CREATE YOUR OWN public_html FOLDER !!!! * 5- *** ADVANTAGES: REMEMBER THE CONF APACHE AND THIS ADJUSTS THE XAMPP APPLICATION BUGS (IF APPLICABLE) FASTER * 6- *** THE XAMPP PORTABLE VERSION IS SELF-CONTAINED: JUST DELETING THE xampp FOLDER TOTALLY UNINSTALL THE SOFTWARE