How to Edit PHP.INI on iPage Web Hosting

Log in into your iPage account. Click on the 'Scripting and Add-Ons' hyperlink in your iPage control panel, and then click on the 'CGI and Scripted Language Support' link.
Click on the 'PHP Scripting' hyperlink in the CGI and Scripted Language Support menu. Set your PHP.INI file's version type. Select either 'PHP4' or 'PHP5' from the menu box in beneath the 'Select Default PHP Version' heading. Click 'Set.'
Edit the values next to each directive you'd like to alter in the PHP.INI file. For example, you'd set your maximum post data and upload size by editing the values next to the 'post_max_size=' and 'upload_max_filesize=' field.
Click on the 'Save' button to store your changes to the PHP.INI file.
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How to Start Joomla Using XAMPP (31 Steps)

Browse to the download page for XAMPP at Apachefriends.org. Click the 'Installer' link and save the 'xampp-win32-1.7.4-VC6-installer.exe' file to your desktop. Note that the version number in the file name was correct at the time of publication and is subject to change.
Double-click on the downloaded file to launch the installer. Select your preferred language using the 'Installer Language' drop-down menu and click 'OK.'
Click 'Next' when the XAMPP setup wizard appears.
Click 'Next' to install XAMPP in the folder 'c:\xampp' on your computer.
Select all of the check boxes under 'Service Section' to install Apache, MySQL and FileZilla and click the 'Install' button. The setup wizard installs XAMPP and the selected services to your computer.
Click 'Finish' when the installation is complete. If Windows displays any messages about Windows Firewall blocking XAMPP-related services, click the 'Unblock' button.
Click 'Yes' to launch XAMPP and then minimize the window.
Browse to Joomla.org. Click the 'Download' button. Click the 'ZIP' link next to '1.6.5 Full Package.' Save the file 'Joomla_1.6.5-Stable-Full_Package.zip' to your desktop. As with the XAMPP software you downloaded earlier, the version number in the file name is the current version at the time of publication and is subject to change.
Right-click the downloaded file and click 'Extract' to unpack the contents of the archive to a folder on your desktop.
Open the 'Start' menu and click 'Computer' to open a Windows Explorer window.
Double-click the 'C:' hard drive icon and then open the 'xampp' and 'htdocs' folders.
Right-click on open space in the Windows Explorer window, then click 'New' and 'Folder.' Name the new folder 'joomla' and press 'Enter.' Open the folder.
Move all of the files from the folder containing the Joomla package on the desktop to the new 'joomla' folder and close Windows Explorer.
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