What You Will Need: 1. full administrative rights on your workstation and access to your Firewall settings, 2. a text editor, preferably with the ability to show line numbers like Textpad or Crimson Editor (which is free), 3. and a copy of the latest full zip or 7-zip package for Windows, which you can download from Apache Friends XAMPP for Windows. We recommend you use the MD5 version to ensure file integrity. This involves extra steps but they're potentially worth it, and we'll cover them in these instructions. How To Install Xampp: 1. First Download Xampp(http://portableapps.com/apps/development/xampp) 2. Push Next 3. Next 4. Tick FileZilla/Apache/MySql 5. Install 6. Let it configure Everything and install 7. Finish 8. A Command Prompt will open 9. Looking for Necessary Ports... 10. If Everything Goes Smoothly Then Boom You Can Continue Fixing Apache Problem: 1. Go To Control Panel 2. Administrative Tools 3. Service 4. Right Click Apache 5. "Open" 6. No Errors Happen It Should Be fixed If not 7. Uninstall 8. Reboot 9. Reinstall Adding it As a Domain: 1. Go to http://www.no-ip.com/ 2. No-Ip Free 3. Sign Up Now 4. Fill That In 5. Click I Accept,Create My account 6. Add The Host Enjoy, Iamcoolz
You wont really need to have FileZilla ticked unless you run off a non local system. And make sure you download the latest one .5.6.3. Also, if you run Skype on port 80 and you start XAMPP Apache will not run until you go into Skype and untick the use port 80 in the connections tab in Skype settings.
Ah forgive me, I put that in there in case someone wishes to use it. This is a tutorial I made for people, you can change the port it default listens to inside the settings for XAMPP.