We have a machine running Windows 7 and Xampp which we have called our "Dev server" (which isn't really a server but hey...).
Our production site is and has been hosted online for a couple of years now running Magento 1.6.2 and is doing well. My question is regarding setting the site up on the "dev server".
We have had it working before with a local copy of our site but since rebuilding the machine have had problems getting it back up and running. A problem since I have some code I really need to test before putting it live.
Anyway I've installed Xampp (the latest version).
Changed max execution time
enabled curl.dll
added 127.0.0.1 localhost to the hosts file
Set up the sql db through myPhpAdmin
extracted a clean magento1.6.2 folder and gone to install
The install goes Ok until I enter my db details and get the "PHP extensions "0" must be loaded" error.
Online searches mention changing core code (which I'm hesitant to do) and I've tried changing the core config.xml <pdo_mysql/> line which just results in a redirect loop.
Does anyone have any advice on this?
Thanks,
James