Serendipity is a free and open-source blogging platform that offers features such as plugins, templates, and spam protection. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Serendipity on Windows 10.
First, go to the Serendipity website at https://docs.s9y.org/ and click on the "Download" button. Select the latest stable version and download the zip file to your computer.
Next, extract the downloaded file into the web server's document root folder. For XAMPP, the default document root directory is C:\xampp\htdocs\; for WAMP, it is C:\wamp\www\. Extract the Serendipity files into the document root directory.
Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/. Create a new database using the "New" button on the left side of the page. Name the database whatever you want and set the collation to "utf8_general_ci".
Go to the Serendipity directory and rename serendipity_config_local.inc.php.sample to serendipity_config_local.inc.php. Then, open serendipity_config_local.inc.php in a text editor and scroll down until you see the database settings section.
Set the database name, username, and password to the values of your local MySQL server.
$dbHost = 'localhost';
$dbUsername = 'root';
$dbPassword = '';
$dbName = 'serendipity';
Save and close the file.
Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost/serendipity/. The Serendipity installer should automatically run. Follow the installer prompts to complete the installation.
Once the installation is complete, you can log in to the Serendipity admin panel by navigating to http://localhost/serendipity/admin.php.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Serendipity on Windows 10.
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