XAMPP Windows server support

Xampp support

The below guide was kindly provided by ais-one

Note: XAMPP support is a work in progress and is not officially supported.

I got it to work on xampp (v5.6.19 - Windows 32-bit). This comment will be edited as and when problems are found. My path to the application is C:\xampp\htdocs\wpos

NOTE THIS FOR LATER: Feed Server Cannot Start, a lot of linux commands will not work, but so far it is NOT a showstopper. Can still detect POS and run feeds. a) MUST use https://localhost/ instead of https://127.0.0.1/ b) start manually, open shell using xampp control panel

cd htdocs\wpos\api run command node server.js

A. Start With Xampp Configuration (assume fresh install)...

enable mod_proxy_http & mod_proxy_wstunnel in C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf (uncomment their entries in the config file)

mod_rewrite already enabled - no action needed on this, FYI only

curl and gd modules seem to also have been enabled - no action needed on this, FYI only
extension=php_curl.dll
extension=php_gd2.dll

edit C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost *:443>

DocumentRoot /xampp/htdocs/wpos ServerName 127.0.0.1

#ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log #CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

SSLEngine on SSLCipherSuite !ADH:!DSS:!RC4:HIGH:+3DES:+RC4 SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3 SSLCertificateFile /xampp/apache/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /xampp/apache/conf/ssl.key/server.key

<Directory /xampp/htdocs/wpos > AllowOverride all

WSPROXY CONF

ProxyRequests Off ProxyPreserveHost On <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all ProxyPass /socket.io/1/websocket/ ws://localhost:8080/socket.io/1/websocket/ ProxyPassReverse /socket.io/1/websocket/ ws://localhost:8080/socket.io/1/websocket ProxyPass /socket.io/ http://localhost:8080/socket.io/ ProxyPassReverse /socket.io/ http://localhost:8080/socket.io/ <Location /socket.io> Order allow,deny Allow from all

B. Next nodejs, yucks...

add C:\xampp to the PATH environment variable on the machine, stop apache, reboot XAMPP control program, start apache

download node,exe and npm (and npm's node_modules folder) and place it in the folder C:\xampp\

run npm install socket.io as per instructions (the node_modules\socket.io folder created should be in C:\xampp\htdocs\wpos\api\ folder), So you should get:

C:\xampp\htdocs\wpos\api\node_modules\socket.io\

FINALLY...

C. Run https://localhost/installer

There are a few errors, nodejs related ones are important. To check if installed properly

Find the line in the file C:\xampp\htdocs\wpos\installer\index.php

if (!`which nodejs` && !`which node`) {

Change it to below to ignore this check, because it is node.exe (in windows XAMPP) instead of nodejs (in linux)

if (0 && !`which nodejs` && !`which node`) {

Ignore write-permission errors (the other statuses must be green though) and proceed to configure the database. I forgot to note down what it was but there were 2 errors regarding read/write permissions.

rename C:\xampp\htdocs\wpos\docs-template to C:\xampp\htdocs\wpos\docs (it was not renamed as it was caused by one of the errors above)

And I manage to get it working well on XAMPP (Windows 32-bit) so far... until someone else runs into problem.