installing wordpress locally with xampp
DESCRIPTION
Slidedeck from the last Gainesville Wordpress Meetup Group on how to work with Wordpress on your local machine using XAMPP.TRANSCRIPT
Installing Wordpress LocallyCreating a local virtual server with XAMPP
Joshua Rapp; User Experience Designer / Wordpress Developer
Joshua Rapp; User Experience Designer / Wordpress Developer
Joshua Rapp; User Experience Designer / Wordpress Developer
Installing XAMPP Directory Structure
C:/ C:/xampp
C:/xampp/htdocs
Joshua Rapp; User Experience Designer / Wordpress Developer
Start up XAMPP and visit PHPMyAdmin in your browser
Joshua Rapp; User Experience Designer / Wordpress Developer
Create a New MySQL DB with a utf_general_ci collation
Joshua Rapp; User Experience Designer / Wordpress Developer
Click on the privileges tab and add a new user
Joshua Rapp; User Experience Designer / Wordpress Developer
Create your DB user credentials (setup host as localhost)
Joshua Rapp; User Experience Designer / Wordpress Developer
Check all privileges for yourself as a DB user and ADD User
Joshua Rapp; User Experience Designer / Wordpress Developer
Visit Wordpress.org and download the latest version
Joshua Rapp; User Experience Designer / Wordpress Developer
Directory Structure
C:/ C:/xampp
C:/xampp/htdocs
C:/xampp/htdocs/directory
Joshua Rapp; User Experience Designer / Wordpress Developer
Locate the wp-config-sample.php file
Change the data needed and save as wp-config.php
Joshua Rapp; User Experience Designer / Wordpress Developer
Congratulations on installing wordpress on your machine