![]() ![]() To all the newbies on the WordPress website development bandwagon, we recommend installing the localhost server app ‘XAMPP’ as it makes it easy to build a WordPress website on your computer with just a few clicks.Īnyone new to WordPress would ask, “what is the first step in a WordPress website development process?” The straightforward answer is – begin by Installing WordPress locally on a Windows or Mac computer. With about 38% of all websites on the internet powered by WordPress, it is no wonder thousands of people are joining the famous publishing platform every month. Installing WordPress on your computer can be a great step towards building a testing environment for your WordPress themes and plugins.Today, WordPress is the most popular CMS (Content Management System) on the market. WordPress can be installed both on Mac and Windows and upon successful installation, it runs just like the live site. The beauty of installing WordPress on your localhost is that you can carry out a variety of tests without worrying that things will go wrong. I will be illustrating how to install WordPress on one of the most common desktop servers – Xampp. For you to follow this tutorial you need to download and install Xampp. Installing WordPress on Localhost Xamppīefore we get started with WordPress installation, you need to have Xampp running on your computer. You can download Xampp from here, installation of Xampp is easy since should click on the. You should follow the installation prompts like the installation procedure of any other software or.exe files. It is also important to note that Xampp utilizes the same port 80 and 443 as Skype and at times there is a conflict between the two. You can solve this conflict by editing the Skype ports or editing Xampp settings to use different ports instead of ports 80 and 443. When you create the new ports for Xampp your localhost address will have to change to include the ports.įor example: if you have the new port as 80, your localhost address will be If you want to run the Xampp server without editing the ports on Skype or Xampp you can run one at a time. This means you can switch off Skype to run the Apache server. Step 1: Start, Test Xampp Server and Create Site Folder Detailed Installation of Xampp is beyond the scope of this tutorial. The first step when installing WordPress is to start your Xampp server, ensure you start Apache and MySQL. Click on the start button to start running the Apache server and MySQL database.Īfter starting the server we need to check from the browser if everything is running well. If the server is up and running well you should see the following screen: To check we should type on the browser localhost or 127.0.0.1. In the Xampp server the site lives in a folder named htdocs The second step is to create a site folder inside the htdocs folder. We will name our site Demo so we need to create the folder inside htdocs and name it ‘Demo’ then check on the browser to see if the folder is visible. We now check on the browser to see where we will be installing WordPress. Step 2: Download WordPress and Extra into the Site Folderĭownload WordPress and extra it in the folder we created inside the htdocs folder. To download WordPress official site and click on the. After extracting and copying the file your demo folder should look like this zip download file to begin downloading WordPress.Īfter downloading WordPress we should now extract it to our Demo folder and test it on the browser to see if it’s ready for installation.Īfter extracting WordPress to the Demo folder we need to copy all the files from the WordPress folder to the Demo folder. If you have followed all the steps correctly, you should now see the WordPress setup page as shown below Now we should test the site on the browser to see if WordPress is ready for installation. WordPress runs on MySQL database and we need to begin by creating the database before we start running a WordPress installation. We will therefore require the following database details to setup WordPress successfully ĭatabase name – this is the name of the actual databaseĭatabase username – this is the name of the database user with Global Privilegesĭatabase password – this is the password of the databaseĭatabase host – this is the host of our site, in this case, it is the localhost You must understand that the database we are creating will be linked to WordPress in a file called wp-config.php. ![]() To open Phpmyadmin we need to type on the browser To create the WordPress database we need to open Phpmyadmin and create the database, create a user then assign the user Global Privileges. ![]()
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