- #XAMPP INSTALL WORDPRESS LOCALLY HOW TO#
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You should be redirected to the WordPress dashboard.
#XAMPP INSTALL WORDPRESS LOCALLY PASSWORD#
You should be directed to a Success! page.Ĭlick the "Log In" button and enter the Username and Password you just selected. The option to "Allow my site to appear in search engines like Google and Technorati" does not matter since the local installation will not be visible online. Open your browser and point it to You should be redirected to the WordPress installation page that looks like this:įill out the form with your Site Name, Username, Password, and Your Email. You should change it to the database name you selected. You should note that the database name I used is dev_mysite_wp. The user should be root and the password should be empty. ** The name of the database for WordPress */ ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
#XAMPP INSTALL WORDPRESS LOCALLY CODE#
Locate the code that defines the MySQL settings: Open the wp-config.php file with your favorite text editor (I use Notepad++). Copy and paste this file in the same directory and rename it to wp-config.php. In the mysite folder, you will see a file called wp-config-sample.php. It is also important to know whether the data is dummy development or staging data or real production data when the file is sitting somewhere as an exported SQL file. This is important because you may use several databases for different aspects of a multi-dimensional website. I tend to use the convention TYPE_SITENAME_PLATFORM so that dev_mysite_wp tells me it is the development WordPress database for MySite. You can use whatever database name you like. This will load the XAMPP dashboard, which looks like this: Open your browser of choice and type " in the location bar. For simplicity I'll refer to the wordpress folder as the mysite folder from now on. Since you can have multiple sites in HTDOCS, rename the wordpress folder to something identifiable with your site. It is the equivalent of the root directory of your web server. The HTDOCS directory is where all the action happens. It will contain a directory named xampp and a couple of index files. On a Windows machine, unless you chose a different installation directory, the HTDOCS directory will be located at C://xampp/htdocs. You should now see a single folder named wordpress in your destination folder. Step 5: Copy the WordPress folder to HTDOCS
#XAMPP INSTALL WORDPRESS LOCALLY ZIP FILE#
It will be saved as a ZIP file or TAR.GZ.
As of the date of this post, the version is 3.2.1. NOTE: If you have a problem getting the Apache to start running, follow the directions at the end of this post to change the port for XAMPP. When XAMPP is running, the control panel will look like this: Wait a few seconds for it to start running. Next to the Apache and MySQL modules, click the Start button. If XAMPP has not automatically launched, find the XAMPP icon in your Program Files list and click to open it. I would not recommend changing this location since I have run into problems when trying to install it to a sub-directory in the past. By default, XAMPP installs to your main C:\ hard drive.
#XAMPP INSTALL WORDPRESS LOCALLY DOWNLOAD#
Locate the download file and run the installation.
Since I am currently on a Windows machine, these instructions will apply primarily to Windows, although it will apply (for the most part) to installation on any platform. Go to and download XAMPP for your platform.
#XAMPP INSTALL WORDPRESS LOCALLY HOW TO#
The following tutorial explains how to set up XAMPP so you can get right down to the nitty-gritty and start theming your sites in WordPress. In other words, XAMPP is a virtual web server on your computer. XAMPP is an open-source Apache installation that contains all of the tools necessary for WordPress development right on your computer - without having to FTP your site files to a web server or even be connected to the Internet. It's simply more efficient than making changes one at a time to a web-hosted site and you also avoid exposing unforeseen errors and glitches to the browsing public.Īt the top of my local web development environment list is XAMPP. That's all fine and well, but to make custom themes and significant configurations of a site - or to develop any type of higher level site than the photos-of-my-cats-type-news - you must develop on your computer locally before putting anything on a web host. Most simply set it up on their web host, choose a theme, and start adding content. Many people - even non-techies - have heard of WordPress. It has come a long way from being used strictly as a blogging platform to become one of the most intuitive, feature-filled open-source content management systems (CMS) on the web. It's easy to install and style and supported by a great community of developers. As you can probably tell by now, I am a fan of WordPress.
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