Steampilot Guest Book - A school project Local Installation Assuming you have a standard installation of XAMPP: 1 - Extract source files into your htdocs folder of the XAMPP installation. 2 - Rename Config.php.local to Config.php. Leave the remote connection as it is. 3 - Import the database with the guestbook.sql script 4 - Start the application with the following url: http://localhost/guestbook/post/index Remote hosted installation 1 - Extract the source files into your publichtml folder via ftp. 2 - create a mysql database and a corresponding user with full privileges. 3 - Rename Config.php.local to Config.php. and edit the remote connection with text editor. 4 - Start the application with the following url: www.yourdomain.com/guestbook/post/index