How to install Wordpress locally on your PC

[LiveWire]

Well, you have a nice website which you created using Wordpress, a popular CMS. Here we are going to learn how to install it on your PC, which you may use to test any changes, you are planning to make, before deploying on a live server:

Prerequisite:
- LAMPP or WAMPP or XAMPP installed on your PC (I'll show you in another post how to install it on Linux)
- Wordpress ZIP file (download from http://wordpress.org/download/)

Steps:

1. Go to folder location: C:/xampp/htdocs (you know it) and extract Wordpress ZIP file here.

2. Now turn on XAMPP packages: Apache-phpMyAdmin.

3. Go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin password: your default password and create new database "local_wp"

4. Add user with full privilege and set a password.

5. Copy these details to a new TXT file for quick reference:

Database Name: local_wp
Hostname: localhost
Username: user_name
Password: abc123

6. Now go to extracted wordpress folder at C:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress (you know it) and open wp-config-sample.php file in a text editor and give above information and save it as wp-config.php .

7. Now point your browser to http://localhost/wordpress . You'll see the information to install. Give necessary information details and click on Install button. If you get any error, do crosscheck your details given in wp-config.php file.

8. Yay!! Wordpress has been installed. Now login to wordpress at http://localhost/wordpress/wp-login.php

Did you like my tutorial? Thank you.!!

 

[daya143]

thanks mate, i am using MAMP lol

 

[Sander k]

I use XAMPP and Notepad++ all the time for my plugin and theme developments.

 

[PeaceSigns]

Wordpress is sooo popular, that Microsoft even wrote a tutorial on how to install it locally on a windows machine - http://www.microsoft.com/web/wordpress

 

[Genesis]

Guess next thing Microsoft is going to buy Word Press?

 

[PeaceSigns]

Unlikely, there's little profit in Wordpress at a corporate level (Unless you wanted to buy it and charge for commercial use).

 

[Genesis]

True. They're probably designing something in competition as we speak.

 

[PeaceSigns]

It's called Sharepoint - worst content management system ever. Super expensive as well.

 

[rapidace]

Thanks for your great and rich information man!

 

[GigaGreg]

You could make some screenshot, because it would make the tutorial easy to follow, but otherwise its really cool for newbies.

 

[dnsblg]

Nowadays companies paying huge amounts just to access a large userbase, so Mircosoft would not need to directly monetize WP. Everything seems happy these days after FB acquired Whatsapp.

 

[sharpenyoursword]

You could try using WAMP if you use windows. XXAMP is also very good! MAMP if your using MacOSX. and LAMP if your using LINUX.

 

[bnvivek]

There is more automatic route to this if you are on Windows. Why not try the Microsoft Platform. It works well with me for all testing purposes.
You can take a look at it here: www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx
Hope this helps!

 

[helpremember]

I've used bitnami quite a bit. Their local and remote installers for WAMP, LAMP and MAMP are incredibly easy to install. One thing that I find particularly useful is their module feature which allows the running of multiple scripts on a single local server. This is a screenshot of the browser based application launcher where I can run Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and a number of other things on my laptop.

http://bitnami.com/stack/lamp

http://bitnami.com/stack/wamp

http://bitnami.com/stack/mamp

Be sure to use the Modules if you want to install multiple apps.