Install OrangeHRM on Windows

Pre-requisities

The pre-requisites are;

If you already have Apache HTTP Webserver(and PHP loaded as an Apache Module) and MySQL running, then you have everything you need.

In case you dont have the requisites setup, you have two options.

Use an AMP stack which has Apache, MySQL and PHP pre-configured to work together.

If you want you could configure Apache, MySQL and PHP on you own manually. You can refer the OrangeHRM FAQ on how to install/configure them.

Recommended AMP stack for Windows is XAMPP Windows. Download page; click XAMPP Windows 1.6.0

Notice: make sure you download the Installer from the Basic Package and not the upgrades, developer packs, etc.

After downloading, start installing XAMPP for Windows.

You can choose the default installation location and click Next
When asked to "Install XAMPP Servers (Apache, MySQL, .....) as service?", select Yes
When asked "Install Apache 2 as service?", select Yes
When asked "Install MySQL as service?", select Yes
You may skip the other services by selecting no since they are not required for OrangeHRM
Select Yes to start the XAMPP control panel too.

Notice:

If you use any firewall software(ie; Windows Firewall) if prompted please make sure that XAMPP services (Apache Web Server, MySQL) are exempted from the blocked list
If you use Skype, this may result in a port conflict with Apache web-server included in XAMPP when install . Therefore make sure you re-start Windows to make sure that XAMPP services start before Skype (then Skype will go for an alternate port).

Copying files

Copy OrangeHRM-ver-2.2.zip into the document root of the Apache HTTP Server.

Notes

If you used XAMPP for Windows, document root is

<XAMPP Installed Location>\htdocs\

ex. C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs

Extracting

Extract OrangeHRM-ver-2.2.zip into the same folder, which would extract every thing into a directory called 'orangehrm2'.