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Hi, I'm new to this site. I want to install this site in my local server. But I'm unable to do so.

I'm following https://docs.question2answer.org/install/ but getting following database error.

Fatal error: Uncaught mysqli_sql_exception: Table 'qa_tuts.qa_options' doesn't exist in C:\xampp\htdocs\qa\qa-include\qa-db.php:227 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\qa\qa-include\qa-db.php(227): mysqli->query('SELECT title, c...') #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\qa\qa-include\qa-db.php(202): qa_db_query_execute('SELECT title, c...') #2 C:\xampp\htdocs\qa\qa-include\qa-db.php(557): qa_db_query_raw('SELECT title, c...') #3 C:\xampp\htdocs\qa\qa-include\qa-db.php(590): qa_db_single_select(Array) #4 C:\xampp\htdocs\qa\qa-include\app\options.php(135): qa_db_multi_select(Array) #5 C:\xampp\htdocs\qa\qa-include\qa-base.php(403): qa_preload_options() #6 C:\xampp\htdocs\qa\qa-include\qa-page.php(36): qa_initialize_postdb_plugins() #7 C:\xampp\htdocs\qa\qa-include\qa-index.php(188): require('C:\\xampp\\htdocs...') #8 C:\xampp\htdocs\qa\index.php(27): require('C:\\xampp\\htdocs...') #9 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\qa\qa-include\qa-db.php on line 227

Can anyone help me ?

Comments

I used xampp server ( Apache + MariaDB + PHP + Perl ) from the link https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html, later i come to know that Mysql is required rather than MariaDB.

So I installed Mysql from the site https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/

Still same problem, So i remove xampp, and install Apache,Php and Mysql from the guidlines in the link https://freelancedev.tech/how-to-setup-apache-php-and-mysql-on-windows-10/

after that i installed phpmyadmin too for my convinience, then try to install q2a, but still the same error i'm getting.

I'm only renaming, changing user credentials and database in qa-config.php file, nothing else i'm doing.

I also checked whether the given user able to create tables or not in the database by using phpmyadmin - Yes, it's creating new tables.

Finally, I'm moving into Linux instead of windows in coming days.

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So, it's a clean Q2A installation. Which windows is it? 7,8,10 or 11?

But yes, moving to Linux is way easier for setting up websites

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sir, it's windows 8.

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Same configuration working in ubuntu. Not able to trace the problem with windows