About WordPress & Wordpress installation on XAMPP server
About Wordpress
WordPress is the most famous CMS (Content Mangment System) in theworld, and every type of website can becreated by it.
Two things are imporants for creating a High professional website or blog using wordpress:
- Web Hosting (storage space and access for websites)
- Domain Name (website name & domain extension like .com.pk.us.co.org.info.net many more)
Don’t worry, if you have not purchased a domain and hosting yet, create
your website or blog on your local hos. You can create a full website or blog
locally before going to live server. It is be椀ter to create a website or blog on
the local host, after completing your project you can easily upload
(launch)your full site on a live server.
First you need to install a local host software on your PC to make it local server to run web development applications. I recommend XAMPP, a small utility ,which will allow you to run a local web server on your own machine, using Apache and MySQL. This tutorial is for Windows users, there are other versions of XAMPP are available, if you are using XAMPP is available for the following o/s (operating system)
- XMAPP for Windows
- XMAPP for MAC
- XMAPP for Lunix
INSTALLING OF XAMPP
First, you need to download XAMPP. Click here to download XAMPP latest version, and then double click the installer file to install on your computer.
Its installation is quite easy, as like any other software, you have already
installed.
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| xampp download |
If your system is configured by default, a message appears indicating that
the control of the user’s account – UAC – is disabled.
Press OK and confirm the steps for installing the software.
Starting the Apache and MySQL
After installation, launch XAMPP from your desktop shortcut and start
Apache and MySQL by pressing “Start” on the control panel.
Now open your browser, and type h椀tp://localhost and press enter, you will
see a XAMPP home page, and now you can run any web development
software, including WordPress on your local machine.
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| xampp home screen |
Select English language to go to the admin panel, and now you can install
WordPress locally.
4. CREATE A DATABASE FOR WORDPRESS
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| creating database using phpmyadmin |
Now we are going to create a database for wordPress installation.
click on the link phpMyAdmin to create a database for WordPress
installation.
Now you are here at phpmyadmin panel.
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| phpmyadmin datbase |
Click on the databases link on the top and type database name for example
“WordPress”in the database name and click crate. Now you have created
your database successfully. A confirmation message is displayed, your
database is operational and ready to be coupled to a WordPress installation.
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| creating datebase |
INSTALL WORDPRESS
The hard part is done, now we start creating a WordPress website on the local host. Get the latest WordPress CMS – version from www.wordpress.org
download latest version of wordpress from this website
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| download wordpress latest version
Locate the xampp folder on c:\ open it and locate htdocs folder, and create a
new folder “Wordpress ”here, and past the unzipped files in the WordPress folder. Latest version is 4.1. Open your browser to go to the root of your new site by typing h椀p://localhost/wordpress / simply where you have past WordPress files. Create WordPress configuration file |
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| configuration file
Click “Create the configuration file” and “Let’s go” and enter the login
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details to your database. The fields “Host Database” and “Table Prefix” does
not need to be changed and leave the password field empty. Remember here
in local host does nor require password.
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Connection details to the database
Confirm the message “Great! We arrived at the end of this par
installation.WordPress can now connect with your database.
Connecting to the database
It’ll only start the installation and fine‑tune the final details by entering the
title of your new site, a username, a password and an email address. The
“Privacy” is of no importance,installing WordPress is local, and therefore
inaccessible from the outside.
WordPress Website Details
Press “Install WordPress” to finish off.
Now we have installed WordPress locally using XAMMP .That’s it,
now you can administer your site as you link address http: //localhost/wordpress/wp‑login.php
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| login in wordpress |
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