So after you have xampp installed, you probably want to set up a virtual host, so you can have the files from your website anywhere on your system. To do this, go to
xamppPath/apache/conf/httpd.conf
And add something like:
<VirtualHost yourWebsiteName>
ServerName yourWebsiteName
DocumentRoot "C:/Documents and Settings/TONY/My Documents/Design/ConcreteCMS/yourWebsiteName/trunk/web"
<Directory "C:/Documents and Settings/TONY/My Documents/Design/ConcreteCMS/yourWebsiteName/trunk/web">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Then you want to add the site name to your hosts files, so that your browser knows to look on the local network for the site. On xp, this is located at:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Add something like this to the file:
127.0.0.1 yourWebsiteName

Restart Xampp.

At this point, you should be able to go tohttp://yourWebsiteName/ and have it show an installation screen.

Go tohttp://localhost/phpmyadmin/ and add a new database called yourWebsiteName. You might also want to go to the user page in phpmyadmin to set up a general user account for accessing your database.

Fill out the installation screen athttp://yourWebsiteName/, and your site should be ready to go

hi,
follow the steps in your guide to install in xampp c5 but it shows me the following error:

mysql error: [1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '\'0000-00-00 00:00:00\', uID INTEGER(10) UNSIGNED, atID ' at line 4] in EXECUTE("CREATE TABLE AttributeValues ( avID INTEGER(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, akID INTEGER(10) UNSIGNED, avDateAdded DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT \'0000-00-00 00:00:00\', uID INTEGER(10) UNSIGNED, atID INTEGER(10) UNSIGNED, PRIMARY KEY (avID) );")


What could be the error or that I would fail to make it work.???
THANKS!

I just noticed someone else kindly just posted on setting up c5 on windows, which is quite a bit more helpful than my previous post:
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/installation/how_to_insta...

Yayyy, thanks. I got it working on windows xampp