Install Wordpress on XAMPP

The goal of this guide is to show web designers how to install Wordpress (2.8 or above) locally on their computers for the purpose of designing and testing Wordpress themes. Wordpress requires that the computer you are installing to has a webserver (such as Apache, LiteSpeed, or IIS), PHP 4.3 or greater, and MySQL 4.0 or greater.

XAMPP is an easy-to-install web server environment, which has all the previously mentioned components. All of the following instructions are based on the assumption that you have a XAMPP installation running locally on your machine.

Note: The demonstration shown here uses Linux.

Steps

  1. Download and save the latest version of Wordpress from the following link: http://wordpress.org/latest.zip.
  2. Extract the contents of the ZIP file called "wordpress.zip", which was downloaded in step 1, to the htdocs folder within the '/opt/lampp/hdoc directory. If ZIP file extracted properly there should be a new directory called "wordpress" within the \opt\lampp\htdocs directory.
  3. In your terminal, type the following to grant write privileges to the wp-config.php file. You'll need this for later.
    • chmod a+rw /opt/lampp/htdocs/wordpress -R
  4. Run XAMPP and make sure all three servers are up and running.
  5. Go to the XAMPP main page by opening a web browser and entering the following URL: http://localhost/dashboard/.
  6. Select the link called "phpMyAdmin" on the upper right hand side of your screen on the menu, or by entering the following URL: http://localhost/phpmyadmin
  7. In the field labeled "Create new database" enter the name "wordpress" then click ↵ Enter.
  8. In your browser, navigate to 'localhost/wordpress'. You will see a message that tells you a configuration file must be made. Click Create configuration file and on the following page, click Let's Go!.
  9. Enter wordpress for your Database Name, root as your User Name, and leave 'Password' blank. Click Submit.
  10. Click Run the install.
  11. Enter a title for your blog, your email address and chose a unique password and username. After you're done, click Install Wordpress.
  12. Voila! You have successfully installed Wordpress on XAMPP on your Linux machine! See that wasn't so hard was it? Pat yourself on the back you've accomplished something many people find quite difficult (probably cause they haven't read this post).

Tips

  • It's not good to write down passwords.

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