This is the first chapter of the Complete WordPress Theme Guide series. In this chapter, you will learn how to install WordPress on a local computer. By doing so, it will save you time from updating and previewing files (so, you don’t have to frequently upload files on every change). You can also use the local version to test new plugins, themes, and upgrades. This tutorial is intended for beginners who want to learn how to run WordPress locally.
If you have some technical background, you can skip the detailed steps in this tutorial. Here are the simplified steps on how to install WordPress on a local computer:
Create a new database.
Download WordPress from wordpress.org and extract the files to a new folder under the htdocs folder.
Rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php and update the database details according to your local server.
Run wp-admin/install.php and follow the instructions to install WordPress.
Done!
Before you start, let’s look at the requirements to run WordPress:
In order to run any PHP/database application on a local computer, you need a local host (ie. Apache + MySQL). For Mac, use MAMP. For PC, use XAMPP or WAMP.
I’m using Mac here, so I’m going to install MAMP. Go to mamp.info, download and install MAMP.
After you’ve installed MAMP, run it and it should take you to the start page. Now click on phpMyAdmin. In the phpMyAdmin page, create a new database (eg. wordpress).
Go to wordpress.org and download the latest build of WordPress. Go to the htdocs folder (where you installed the MAMP), extract the wordpress.zip to a new folder (eg. mysite).
In the folder, rename the wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php. Open wp-config.php and update the database details (db_name, user, password, host) according to your local server.
With your browser, go to http://localhost:8888/mysite/wp-admin/install.php and follow the instructions to install WordPress.
In the next chapter, I’m going to show you how to create a custom WordPress theme in designer way (no PHP skill is required).
mee
Wow, that’s Cool.
I didn’t thought of that. But they idea is brilliant. Now I can’t change the theme without worrying about the live status …
Great ThanX
Winmac
Great! A tutorial with Mac and MAMP installed on it! I’m fated to found this place. Hahaha. Thanks man. Waiting for your next chapter.
Josh
Alright Nick. That took 5 minutes. On to the next step..lets go!!! Hurry up! :)
DKumar M.
Nice Idea!!
Quite impressive and easy to setup.
Thanks
Aris
I just wanted to say that YOU RULE!!!
Sam
Nicely written tutorial!
In case someone is trying this on Windows, WAMP (http://www.wampserver.com/en/index.php) is a nice alternative to XAMPP. I personally like it better since it has straightforward menu’s.
Sothy
Just a note, the latest beta of WordPress is pretty cool, I have it running and haven’t run into show stopping problems. But you’re probably correct to reference a stable release :) Good tutorial.
David Hellmann
interesting! the next step is good to sea how make a designer a wordpress theme.
rafal
Good joob!!! I wait to the next chapters!
Kym
I’ve done this in the past, but I don’t do it any longer. For some reason, the local server programs I install are always prone to bugs, breaking down, etc.
Nevertheless, installing WordPress locally is beneficial as you can test your themes beforehand and keep a working copy of your website, replete with its posts.
Anton Shevchuk
Alternative of XAMPP is Denwer (now only russian)
Danh ba web 2.0
The post is very useful for newbie. Anyway, thanks a lot !
Keep up the good work
Ana Paula Meyer
Nice tutorial! Another alternative is EasyPHP (PHP – Apache – MySQL – PhpMyAdmin for Windows) in english or french. Very easy to install and an administration page with all your local web projects.
ffranz
I can install two WordPress on a single database, for instance for a preview? If so, can I how do?
Mr WordPres$uccess
I realize that you asked this a few years ago, but, for anyone else who has the same question, you can install as many WordPress sites as you want by placing the files in different directories.
For each installation, edit the wp-config.php file. It must contain the database connection information and then, under the section “WordPress Database Table prefix”, make sure that each WordPress installation using the same database has a unique “$table_prefix” name.
Brtk
anyone else having trouble running the XAMPP ? I’m getting libsql.dll errors running mad all over my screen when I start the admin tool….
Søren Hugger Møller
I agree with Sam. WAMP is very nice. I haven’t tried XAMPP, but I would really recommend WAMP.
abdulaziz
THANK YOU MAN !!!
Permana Jayanta
clear explanation. I Hope the next chapter will be published as so on as possible. I really wait for that ..
Petolo
Your tutorial on the subject will definitely tilt the scales in favour of WP.
I have been trying to decide between many CMSs for simple sites and what you have achieve with your site gives me the confidence that it can be themed away from the existing templates out there.
I am a designer so if the amount of PHP is kept to a minimum even better :)
Regards,
Petolo
anestesya
great Guide!
very good, was expecting a practical guide so
Luis Neng
I do an extra step when I install WP locally, I like to configure the virtual host in Apache with a fully qualified domain name and then edit my host file to point that domain to localhost.
The advantage of this setup is to save you the step of replacing all your non-qualified domain names in your code and in the database before migrating your website to a production server.
louisa
Thanks, have always wanted to know to do stuff locally.
Steve Ambielli
Fantastic tutorial. Now I can run a local server!
Todd Smith
quick and easy, thank you!
Corey Dutson
Gahhh where were you 2 weeks ago? I figured this out on my own and it took HOURS. All the tutorials I tried to use were years old.
In any case thank you for posting this.
TheFrosty
Sweet!!
Efraim S
I hope you won’t forget the hold ups of transfering your local database to a your online one.
The many many many hold ups.
Especially if you use security plugins. (Quick Pro Tip on that: Don’t install the Security Plugins on your local and just have them running on your live)
Love your site my fellow Torontonian. If only I had friends like YOU in this city eh? lol
Mike Brisk
So sweet, and easy. Thanks for posting this article.
weblizzer
great tutorials for the beginners, i can’t wait to see the next series…
greg owen
excellent stuff! just what i needed. & so easy! thanks a million.
roll on chapter 2!
cheers
Brian Okken
I’ll second Sam’s comment.
I’ve used both XAMPP and WAMP (WampServer).
For uses such as this, I think WAMP is easier to use.
Thanks for the series.
I’m looking forward to the following articles.
Regards,
Brian
ansel
Thanks for this post! Looking forward to the next installment.
george
Finally, someone will do this right. I read the “small potato” tutorials to learn wordpress. I wish you would have been available back then. You’re much easier to follow.
Eliot
I use MAMP on my Mac, but I think there’s a better alternative to XAMPP for Windows. It is called USB Web Server. There’s no installation required so you can just drop it anywere you want, even on a USB-stick! Check it out.
Michael
This is one of the most useful articles I have read on any blog anywhere – thanks!
Dainis Graveris
Finally, installing is too easy.. I think :) Cann’t wait to other parts..:)
printers brisbane
Hey great simple instructions. Thanks a heap!
daniel
looking forward your next post :)
Jon Williams
Any chance for a textpattern article?
Adam
Great stuff. Never used MAMP before.
Chris Barnett
Thanks for a great post. Really came at a critical time. Looking forward to some more frequent entries. Amazed at how progressive your features on the blog are getting. Great stuff, keep up the great work..
Cheers
davide
very usefull, but nothing special. you have gained 5 days simply posting the summary eheheh
Wardell
I’ve been working with XAMPP for a few years now but the MAPP knowledge will be useful if I ever need to setup a testing server on a Mac.
James
Nice one, should be useful to me at some point! Bookmarked.
John
Am I the only idiot who found XAMPP impossible to install? I don’t really need a solution, I’ll just get someone more technologically inclined to handle that part. Any “here, here’s” would make me feel better though.
mark
Mamp rocks!
I use this process myself and definitely could not have written it better.
Great job as usual.
carrie Drazin
Extremely helpful!
Thank you.
gummisig
Love this Nick, you are a true guru. This is particulrly helpfull since I´m starting work on a new site with wordpress as the backend.
Helen
Great stuff. Looking forwards to reading the complete tutorial. (Especially as I am struggling with my own at the moment)
Christopher Ueda
very cool. I’ve been updating my site and then checking it live. This is so much easier. Thanks! Definitely looking forward to the rest of the tutorial.
David Hage
Thanks very much for the tutorial! Looking forward to the remaining two. Your clear instructions are great, I’ve been meaning to give WordPress a try for a while now.
Alvaris Falcon
A simple yet useful and excellent tutorial, your article always make me feel impressed!
Danne
Looking forward to part 2!!
teddY
Hey Nick, thank you so much for the tutorial. I’ve been wanting to install WP locally so that testing WP won’t be eating my all the bandwidth of my hosting plan. I’ve tried combing through online tutorials but some of them are horribly overcomplicated and makes it sound very cumbersome to get WP installed.
Thank God your tutorial came at the right time! Now I can test WP2.7 beta locally without messing with the online and active version of my WP ;)
However, I’d prefer to use WAMP because it uses phpmyadmin. Very handy and simple. Oh, and I can’t wait for the next part to be released!
Ariyo
Thanks Nick, can’t wait for the actual meat.
abdulaziz
WE ARE WATING YOU :)
sol
buenisimooooooooooooo!!
Tim
Curious – on this tutorial, you show your wp-config file and at the localhost part – you have ‘localhost:8889’ — why is it 8889 instead of 8888 ? (which is what MAMP sets it up as). I admit, I’m new to this, so maybe there’s a perfectly good explanation for this, I just thought I’d ask. Does it make a difference?
Chris O'Donnell
@Tim
I’ve got it set up and working with localhost:8888, I’m not sure if that’s just a typo or if there’s a better explanation, but I wouldn’t worry about it… :-)
Dan
Yes, yes, yes! Super-handy mate.
This will save me a lot of time methinks.
Mads
The reson that it’s set to 8889 it that it’s MySQL port and the 8888 is the apache port!
Allen
That’s very cool tutorial! Love it
paskal
hello :)
hurm i’ve done this since Xampp 1.5. very easy to me. i use it to test my wordpress theme offline, since it won’t eat away my server bandwith.
very nice and detailed tutorial indeed. keep it up!
Surfer
Good guide.
I’m waiting for the next chapters.
Jorge I. Zaruma
this was a very helpful tutorial for me. Thank You!….waiting for the next tut:)
Simon
It might also be worth covering how you switch on mod_rewrite in apache as its turned off by default. Once its switched on then you can test various perma link structures locally.
As that was the one problem I had when running WordPress locally. =)
insicdesigns
very cool tutorial. very usefull to beginners in wordpress.
Amilcar Tavares
That’s cool. But the hard part is to pass it your server on the internet.
Luis Neng
@Amilcar
I wrote an article that might save you some time :)
You should be able to migrate your blog to a production server without any hassles if you use my solution. Installing WordPress Locally and Migrating to a Production Server Hassle-Free
ophy
I have XP64bit and don’t work :(
Bastian
If XAMPP doesn’t work for you (it sadly didn;t work for me either), try another one (first uninstall the other server!) : wamp server and usb webserver (dutch site, but english software available) worked fine for me.
Greetz,
Bastian
giles
i’m really struggling with step 5!!
when i go to http://localhost:8889/mysite/wp-admin/install.php in my browser, firefox tries to open the file with dreamweaver?!?
what am i doing wrong?
Mitchel
You should try usbwebserver 7 you unpack it, and it works.
I always have wordpress running in less then 5 minutes.
Also mod_rewrite is on bij default.
Magnus
@giles
I had some trouble with this too, until I realized I had extracted the wordpress zip-folder into a new directory inside ‘mysite’. When I moved the wordpress-files out of ‘wordpress-folder’ into ‘mysite’ it worked just fine.
dev(Www.iHaCK.ASIA)
really useful tutorial,save many time to edit theme and perview the result
Saman
Thanks..
bweb
Thanks man.
Matthew Hodder
I’ve had WAMPP set up for a while (for testing php) and never even thought of installing wordpress locally to test changes to my (few) wordpress sites. Nice post!
paluh
sweet, thanks a lot
Arian
It does not find where I installed wordpress.
http://localhost:8888/mysite/wp-admin/install.php
I get the message below and it’s not caused by a firewall or anything like that.
Failed to Connect
Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at localhost:8888.
Though the site seems valid, the browser was unable to establish a connection.
* Could the site be temporarily unavailable? Try again later.
* Are you unable to browse other sites? Check the computer’s network connection.
* Is your computer or network protected by a firewall or proxy? Incorrect settings can interfere with Web browsing.
ocube
Hey giles
Not sure if its the same problem I faced but try placing your site in (the whole shebang) in applications/mamp/htdocs/
workked for me. I use a G5 at work and could only get it to work that way. Funny thing is I use an intel Imac at home and it didnt have that problem. let me if that helps.
ocube
luke
Giles, make sure that you changed the wp-config-sample file and make sure that you only have a (1) parent folder under htdocs structure should be like this:
mamp>htdocs>mytestsite>then all the extracted WP files
SC
with WP 2.6.x “Update wp-config.php File” as a option, the install guide will do it.
rik
Hi thx for the great tutorial. Anybody got any ideas how to acces the site from a PC in my LAN to check how IE works with my freshly created theme?
Rodrigo
humm não é muito dificil estou tentando seguir as dicas acima veremos se consigo
WP Cult
Working on rebuilding my web store locally right now! Thanks!
PcSaudavel.com
Very goo Website.
Thank you
Roberto
Julynell
This was a great help! Thanks so much. I love your site, keep up the good work :)
aris
I already have a wordpress blog. how do i log into that? It seems that its creating a new site. im lost please help.
fahad
hey,
im trying to install wordpress locally but im having some problems. When i get part 5 where it says :
With your browser, go to http://localhost:8888/mysite/wp-admin/install.php and follow the instructions to install WordPress.
i get an error message. Can you tell me where im going wrong?
Thank you
aris
Fahad make sure that the contents from the wordpress folder are directly in the mysite folder. applications/mamp/htdocs/mysite/(the contents from inside the wordpress folder). if you place the the whole wordpress folder inside it wont work. Hope that helps.
fahad
Thanks Aris:) it works now.
Does anyone know where i can download a plugin which allow users to rate a product and review my posts or products?
by the way this site is great!
thank you for you help guys
grek
Hey,
I use Windows and istalled WAMPServer. The problem I have is with step 3: where actually should I unzip the WordPress content? The only ‘htdocs’ folder I have is inside ‘apache’ folder (wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.10\htdocs\).
Please help me.
joyce
Hi,
Thank you for the tutorial, it is great!
I have successfully set up WordPress on localhost, however I don’t know how to login to the admin panal of WordPress. I am a newbie, please pardon me if this sounds like a silly question. Thanks in advance!
alysync
I am totally in the dark…so grateful this site exists!
The “newbie” tutorial for installing WordPress locally was too complicated for me…but since the blog is already up…(hosted with Hostazar…I managed to get THAT accomplished)…my dilemma now is “Themes”…I desperately need help in uploading/installing themes.
I am very ashamed because I AM a (graphic) designer…but not technical enough for Web design…my expertise is marketing/branding/imaging and PR…I’ve taken a hiatus from all that to engage in Internet marketing…so my inability to make my sites look fabulous is embarrassing to say the least. Please help!
I just discovered this blog and I’m reading all the other posts here now…in the meantime, additional hand holding is highly appreciated.
Thanks ahead of time.
AlysynC
Rikin
I’m a complete noob and didn’t know to turn web sharing on in order for MAMP to work properly. Hope this helps anyone else as incompetent as I am! Thanks for this post so much…
someone that got frustrated
for those trying to install wordpress and use xampp (mac or PC) when editing the code DO NOT put in a password. above says root for username and root for password. dont put in a password. you might have to remove whatevers there first. you can keep your localhost as just localhost as well.
Desirae
I’m stuck on Step 5. I tried that URL: http://localhost:8888/mysite/wp-admin/install.php and I get a “Failed to connect” error. I don’t know where I went wrong. I’m using WAMP server. I opened the HTML file in the wordpress htdocs folder and clicked the 5 minute install link which takes me to a page saying I already have wordpress installed. I never saw the install.php page. There were 2 blank text fields. There, I tried to name it and put my email address associated with the server. I don’t know what’s happening.
Also, What does the number 8888 and 8889 mean after “localhost:”? How do I know if I used the right number or if I need one at all?
steve
MAMP saves me soooo much time. Amazed it’s free.
Outlet
Super list. Thank you very much :)
Okeif_Obd
For anyone using WAMP (and possibly XAMPP, have not tested) who has any issues related to Step 3-5, here is your solution:
With WAMP installed (or XAMPP) your Step 3, 4 and 5 will look different then, our gracious host has suggested, with a MAMP install.
Step 3.) Go to wamp / www, in whatever directory or location that wamp was installed. Extract latest (or any version) of wordpress-X.X.zip to a folder (mysite) with only the content of the wordpress folder dumped directly into (mysite). New file structure will be wamp / www / mysite / etc..
Step4.)Unless you’ve changed the db username, password or host name then the db_name is whatever you created in Step 2, the username is root, enter nothing between the ‘..’, and host is localhost.
Step5.)With your browser go to http://localhost/mysite/wp-admin-install.php.
Hope that helps!
Thanks again, Nick!
PS. If you’re having a problem getting your WAMP or XAMPP server online, that’s a whole ‘nother issue, but check to make sure you’re not using IIS; infact disable IIS if possible.
Redd Seider
Okeif,
Having endless problems with the install and have tried both Nicks and your directions. Using XAMPP. No luck on either front, as constant “The requested URL was not found on this server” errors.
Have tried all combos:
http://localhost/xampp/www/wordpress/wp-admin-install.php.
http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin-install.php.
http://localhost:8889/wordpress/wp-admin-install.php. (get “IE cannot display this webpage” error on this one. wp-config localhost changed)
http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-admin-install.php. (get “IE cannot display this webpage” error on this one. wp-config localhost changed)
Some questions about your post:
1. In “Step 3″, you say ” Go to wamp / www”… This directory does not exist. Do you have to create it?
2. In “Step 4”, you say “…… the username is root, enter nothing between the ‘..’, and host……” What is the “enter nothing between the ‘…’ referring to? The password?
3. In “Step 5”, you say “With your browser go to http://localhost/mysite/wp-admin-install.php”
Should this be:http://localhost/wamp/www/mysite/wp-admin-install.php?
Thanks so much for your assistance!
Tom
I’ve finally got a local WordPress install setup on my Mac thanks to your tutorial. Great for testing new versions and making changes to existing sites without editing live content. Thanks.
probablepossible
Wow, what a difference this makes!
asramnath
Excellent. works well. Thankyou! :)
Emily La Porte
Hello,
I am pretty new to all of this, but eager to learn how to set up my own blog. What is the advantage of installing WordPress locally?
steve b
I’d like to thank Okeif who posted the life-saving tips (comment 101) that are needed to get the install working on a PC. Moved the whole thing from super-frustrating to super-satisfying. Whew…
Georgina
Brilliant, thank you!
What a great idea for working on your design without constant ftping.
infopathologist
Really useful, thanks. In fact, I substituted IIS for Apache on Windows XP, because that’s my usual development environment. All works a treat with PHP and mySQL.
2Clicks
AWESOME! Thank you! This will be VERY VERY usseful from now on. thanks a lot.
pankaj
Wow, thank you!
nathan
IS this lesson inteded for a Paid WordPress account? or this can also apply to a free WordPress Acount.. ?????
Daisy
Hi, i keep getting 404 Not found for http://localhost:8888/mysite/wp-admin/install.php
Tomas Lonnberg
Hi, Brilliant site, brilliant post!!!
I had mega problems getting the XAMPP Server working locally [Windows XP], so I decided to try the WAMP. It works a treat.
This is how I did it – and it has been commented here before so this really is following on the instructions of other users on this post, [Okeif and otheres], anyways… This is for Windows XP,
Download and Instal WAMP,
then
1) create a folder, say ‘mysite’ to your c:\wamp/www/ folder. 2) download WP and unzip it to c:wamp/www /mysite, alternatively just unzip it to your desk top and then copy all of the wp files to c:wamp/www/mysite Make sure you do not a)copy the ‘wordpress’ file in there, just the content and b)don’t copy the wp file content into www. It needs to go to c:wamp/www/mysite !
3) go to phpmyadmin, which can be found on the little icon at the right bottom of the desktop. Create a data base for e.g mysitelocal or what ever.. Just make a note of it.
4)Go to your wp-config-sample file and rename it to wp-config , also set your DB_name as ‘mysitelocal’ or whatever else you chose, DB_user as ‘root DB_password as ” or if you have set a password then use it, and finally DB_host as ‘localhost’ – then save it!
5) next type in http://localhost/mysite or alternatively just write http://localhost and then choose from ‘Your Projects’ the mysite folder and you should be on your way. I hope this helps..
Again Brilliant resource site!! Thanks for all of your help past, present and future.
Andrew
JUST AS A HEADS UP!!! Sometimes the password is not root at all for a local host! In my case it was supposed to be left blank. Caused me hours of issues! Silly me.
Danilo
Sorry,
do you think is possible keep both IIS on local (window 2003 server) and apache…
In this way I can test my sites that working in ASP and my sites that working in php…
Thank you very much
#danilo
Philomena
Thanks! Fantastic site! And thanks Tomas L. who saved me from giving up with your tips for the Windows installation. It works on Vista too. Yeh!
Prakash
Thanks for sharing it, Its so easy !!
Thanks again
Ruchi Parikh
Thanks Alot .. it helped me in setting it up locally, only problem is of simulating .htacess file in the windows xp machine, it would be great help if that could be provided.
Ashley
When I go to /wp-admin/install.php, all I get is a blank page. For some reason it’s not prompting me to install. Can anyone help me fix this issue please?
jlee
Thank you very much for this helpful tutorial.
K-Nine
Ashley, are you by any chance running on a 64 bit Operating system? I am, and I just discovered recently that XAMPP still hasn’t released a 64-bit version… but there are workarounds… if you are interested (an running on 64-bit)
kkerney
Great tutorial! For those of you on a mac and still struggling with MAMP here is another great video tutorial on setting MAMP up on your mac http://www.freemacblog.com/mac-server-series-install-wordpress-on-your-mac-using-mamp/
PAUL
HI – can someone help please
I Get to the very last page and it reads
The requested URL /mysite/wp-admin/install.php was not found on this server.
Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) PHP/5.2.6 DAV/2 Server at localhost Port 8888
Ive tried this 3 times with no joy, can anyone recommend what i might be doing wrong?
Thanks
PAUL
Andyrw80
Hey, Great tutorial.
This is for Paul and anyone else having probs installing WordPress, I think there is a typo where it says “http://localhost:8888/mysite/wp-admin/install.php” I think it should be 8889. Worked for me! Hope it helps.
Andyrw80
Oooopppps, not a typo, scratch my previous comment. I just forgot to put my WordPress dos in the htdocs folder within MAMP. Now it’s working.
Enzo
Hello everybody,
I thought I had done everything right, but I was wrong. For some odd reason when I click the instal file dreamweaver launches and no install takes place.
Following the instructions on the tutorial this is what I did:
1 Created datebase
2 Downloaded wp files, placed them inside a folder named mysite, and subsequently I placed the mysite folder inside the htdocs of mamp.
3) I removed “sample” to rename the wp-config.php
4) I launched dreamweaver and I entered the info inside wp-config.php file (database name, user, password)
5) I went to http://localhost:8889/mysite/wp-admin/install.php and downloaded the instal to my desktop.
6) I click the instal file. Dreamweaver launches showing the istal file, and no instal takes place.
I’m stuck here. I don’t know what to do. What did I do wrong? Can somebody help, please?
Thank you in advance.
For some odd reason, after I download from “http://localhost:8889/mysite/wp-admin/install.php”
MyClubTees
Wonderful! My dilema: Running IIS and Apache on the same PC. I didn’t want to disable IIS. After a bit of struggling I managed to install WAMPServer on my PC. Now I have both servers IIS and Apache running on the same machine. I just changed “Listen 80” to “Listen 777” and “ServerName localhost:80” to “ServerName localhost:777” on httpd.conf – After the change I had to “Restart All Services”. From now on when I want to access Apache server I just have to change the URL to http://localhost:777/YourSite – Great article! Thx!
Hansraj
Im trying to install the wordpress on a rails application.
+ Can wordpress be installed on rails application?
Steavedtugtap
nice, really nice!
Keith D
I’ve just bought a copy of “WordPress theme design”, cost me nearly £25.00.
Pity I didn’t find this article first!!
Question – for windows vista, which is best XAMPP or WAMP?
Thanks for the articles.
Keith D
Bonny Stohlquist
I am using wamp for a pc. I am having trouble with installing wordpress when I type in http://localhost/mysite/wp-admin/install.php I get this error message:
URL /mysite/wp-admin/install.php was not found on this server.
I can get to localhost/mysite and I can see the wordpress folder but cannot access it. I get the error message above.
I put my SQL hostname as “localhost could this be my problem.
If anyone can help me I would appreciate you emailing me at [email protected].
Thanks
Katy
First of all, thanks for yet another great tutorial. I love this site!
I’m running on Windows Vista. I personally couldn’t get XAMPP to work at all, but after some trial and error here’s what worked for me:
1. Download WAMP (http://www.wampserver.com/en/)
2. Follow the tutorial at the following site to get the server and wordpress up and running — http://wordpressgarage.com/good-blogging-practice/how-to-set-up-wordpress-on-a-wampserver/
Hope this helps.
akteruzzaman
computerclinic-banglamedia.blogspot.com
iconz113
Since leopard comes with PHP and apache preinstalled I just wanted to install mysql instead of installing mamp, also because I can use the mac as a webserver If i chose and from what i understand this would be impossible to do with mamp, it can only be used for testing locally and could not be viewed by anyone else. I understand the security issues but I would like the ability to do so. My question is how can I install wordpress using the apache php and mysql installed on the computer and not through mamp?
ghan
I followed the tut.through each step, but developed a problem when trying to run ‘install’. I copied “http://localhost:8888/mysite/wp-admin/install.php” into my browser, but it comes up an blank white page,nothing happened.
when I change the address to “http://localhost:8889/mysite/wp-admin/install.php”,it asked me to save the install file. I did, but when open it,Adobe GoLive launched with these random codes “4???
5.0.41?)[email protected]?,¢??????????????Nc,L{J=1{=\7???ÿBad handshake”….I’m stuck….
I did put wordpress docs in the right folder(htdocs).
Please help me,thanks.
Celtu
Hi,
All I could express after seeing your wordpress blog’s design and beauty was this ” Oh my God, I have never seen such a beautiful design and blog”.
Well Anyway I do know Photoshop and Fireworks but I do not know how these flowers are made and even if these are made in these two or something else, I wish I could create design or flowers like this page has. Wow what is it did you develop yourself I write and preview is showing up of text I am typewriting that’s very new for me.
Any hint will be appreciated.
Oh yeah actually so far I only add entries for short tutorials or hints in my blog for technical programming or gadget or software related.
Thank you for reading my comments.
amarie
hi… i’m confused. i bought a host plan and installed my wordpress on it. does this mean installing it on my computer is much more better?
lella
Could someone give me some advice?
So I downloaded wordpress and installed in sucessfully on localserver –does this mean that the blog is only visible from my computer? I don’t have a web host. can I make one myself? if that is possible I’d like to try and figure it out. thanks!
James P
Following along with the WordPress tutorial here I’m running xampp 1.7.1 on vista sp1 but since I tried to start mysql with it I just get the 1067 error code every time I try to launch phpMyAddmin with it. Thing is I used to be able to run phpmyadmin just fine in previous releases but not anymore.
I’ve Googled the error on a few sites now and I’m not getting any solution yet. Please help as I ‘m banging my head against the wall here!
James P
Solved my problem by switching to my home PC setup :grin: works a charm.
Lish
Hi, My wordpress installation stalls at the last stage after I key in my blog title and email. I am not getting the “Success” page with the generated login and password. Which step am I missing?
Please help! Thanks in advance!
saç ekimi
Thank you very clear
jez stevens
hi love the tutorial so far – very clear, but when I try to run the wp-install php file I get some gobbldygook and “bad handshake” can you help please.
I’m running os x10.4.11 with the latest version of wordpress and mamp.
cennetevi
these are awesome!
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Kathy
Great Info! Had to tweak a few things for Windows Xammp, but very easy process. I love your site. Its one of the most beautiful I have come across and it is full of useful info for an aspiring designer. Thank you for all your work.
subcorpus
helpful article …
was looking for something like this …
thanks for sharing …
am gonna try local wordpress intallation now …
nathan
Mac people, can’t get to the install bit?
You need to move the wordpress folder (that you unstuffed) into the htdocs folder found in the MAMP directory (should be installed in your applications folder).
Than go to the localhost URL described in step 5.
Aoobi
Great Info! Had to tweak a few things for Windows Xammp, but very easy process. I love your site.
harga emas
I like this post and the lesson, thanks for making it.
Great..
Keya Lea
Hey Jez, I got the same thing, but when go you to install, take out the /mysite and it will take you to the install page – assuming all other things have been done.
Thank you to the writer of this post! It walked me through and got me up and running.
bagsin
Thank you very clear steps
serhan
thank you very much ..
DGS
nice and clear – thank you!
Learning WP
In case anyone (Mac users) is having problems with all graphics and pics showing up I figured out why. Another popular tutorial said that you can install wp in any folder on your computer inside a htdocs and I did under my username. But I looked for weeks why the themes and WP icons wouldn’t show up. After reading here I read that wp needs to be installed into the “htdocs” folder inside of MAMP, inside of the apps folder. I also changed my Preferences inside of MAMP to “Reset MAMP ports” and it changed the Apache Port to 80 and they MySQL Port to 3306 and in my browser I put in “http://localhost/wordpress” and everything works perfect. I am new at this so don’t know if it’s the right way but it works to work locally.
I love the design of this site! Thanks for all the great info here.
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Chetan
Hi, Thanks! this is very helpful article.
Stuart
Thanks for the article and I’ve managed to install MAMP with no problems, along with getting a WP install up and running.
However, I cannot get my local install to see any new themes I copy into teh theme directory – any ideas?
Jave
Hi ^^
The information is pretty clear, but i think im doing something wrong and i need help to solve it. When i go to the link you mention to install.php i get this error that says the page was unable to reach… im pretty sure i did something wrong on my wp-config.php doc and actually i dont know the actual account and password for MySql, so please someone contact me and help me i need this thing up o.o I know im missunderstanding some information but i need you to guide me on this ^^
Tnx for all the tutorials and information ^^
Himanshu
Thanks for this detailed tutorial. It clears all my doubts, bookmarked this post.
Mike
Thank you to the writer of this post!
Filip Jakobsen
This is brilliant! THANK YOU SO MUCH for making this tutorial :-) :-) :-)
rarmbeabs
Outstanding Article , I thought it was tremendous
I look ahead to more great postings like this one. Do you have a RSS I can subscribe to for updates?
amanda
your site so beautiful !
Abrar
Excellent tutorial. Thank you very much
ethiodelight
it’s very good post
509 Media
Nice write up. Saved me a little time explaining it to someone. I use WAMP on my pc for working on WordPress pages. I have had no issue with it. I recommend it as well.
Paul Wozney
Hi there,
I used your instructions to set up a local beta site for the school I worked for last year, and it worked flawlessly. I moved to a new school this year, and wanted to start fresh. I deleted the old site, created a new database in myphpAdmin for the new site, and now I can’t get it to work at all. I keep getting the same error message about already having installed wordpress despite having deleted the old database in phpmyadmin.
Any ideas? I have a screenshot of the error message if that would help. Any assistance would be brilliant. Thanks!
Jeff
Check these video…it explains how to install wordpress on local computer..
Please place these video in your blog so it will help your visitors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd3u0bWJv8
Thanks
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SE7E Design
Excellent Tutorial! Spent hours trying to figure this out but once I found this tutorial I had WordPress running locally in half a minute!
Victoria cooke
thank you so much @ Tomas Lonnberg because i couldnt get mine to even give me the page to bring up wordpress until i read your guide. and i went through 13pages of comments and guide trying until i came to yours ^-^ thanks again=)<3
Alvin Tan
I’ve just installed WP 2.9.1 locally with XAMPP Windows 1.7.3 in my Vista PC.
How To Install WordPress Locally With XAMPP
Alex
Hi, just a simple question
Im new to wordpress and php
Which version of local server should I use if the machine I work on locally is a widows pc whereas the server I will be using is with Linux.
Thanks for the tutorial, it’s really helpful
Peter
Thank you for the clear guide. I had been battling for a week to get WordPress installed – you gave me that one bit of information I was missing from other instructions and I got it done in half an hour.
LouienatoR
Nice tutorial mr…. but my problem is that, i’m stuck in 5. Run install.php “Warning: require_once(../wp-load.php)” i need help really badly…. thank you…..
Emily
I’m stuck on step 5, please help!
I’m using a mac and MAMP. I’ve tried every way of trying to get that setup page and have had no success. What am I doing wrong?
number8
hi,
Thanks for this but i have a problem with steps 4 & 5.
I inserted the ‘database name’ no problem. (very impressive i know).
– where do i find the username and password to insert in step 4?
– when you say ‘localhost:8889’? what do you mean?
Sorry if this is all newbie questions but im genuinely stuck.
:(
and assuming i fill in the info in step 4 correctly, then running /install.php should work?
thanks in advance
n8
Kyle King
You might want to add the Microsoft Web Platform Installer as a possible way to install wordpress locally. It is a really easy install for windows users (about 10 minutes).
http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/wordpress.aspx
Kyle King
I would be willing to do a guest post for web designer wall detailing how to use the Microsoft Web Platform. Contact me if you are interested at kyle{at}highergroundstudio{dot}com
Jodi Henderson
This was a fantastic help! Thanks very much!
bantu
resolve for step 5.
in wp-config file replace original code with this:
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password (needs to be empty, just for local install)
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
of cours, your datebase name must be “wordpress”.
enjoy!
Web Design
Great info !! THANKS!!!!
San Diego Mobile Notary
Great tutorial. I was always looking for ways to install WordPress and work with a theme locally. There are many steps, but all are laid out very well. Thanks for taking the time to help everyone.
Kurt
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Graham Armfield
Thanks for the clear instructions and easy to follow layout. This article was very informative.
Gray
Brilliant tutorial and have used it before. I updated my MAMP Pro, and now it won’t work!!! So annoying… it cant connect and I keep getting this msg-
Not Found
The requested URL /mysite/wp-admin/install.php was not found on this server.
Please help, I need to get this sorted. I’ve done everything that is required so really dont know whats going on! Thanks
Alex
Things are slightly different for WAMP: Here’s what I did:
1. Install WAMP into c:/. When done, run WAMP then click on WAMP icon in icon tray> select ‘start all services’ from menu.
2. Go to your browser address bar: http://localhost… (if you see nothing, try closing ‘SKYPE!!!!’), click on phpmyadmin link at bottom (this just takes you to localhost/phpmyadmin)…
3.You now ‘create new database’, give name ‘wordpress’… leave all other dropdown boxes.
4.When it has created that, go to tab towards top right called ‘Privilages’… click ‘add new user’, enter a username and password twice, ignore everything else and click GO on bottom right to save this user.
5. Now you can continue from STEP 3 in Nick (webdesignerwall’s)
tutorial, but note your folder will not be called ‘htdocs’ it is call ‘www’ found at c:/wamp/www/’folder-name-you-created-for-your-local-wordpress’…
arvee marie
i used xampp and it was great. i used it before making my site go live. ♥
Conny
Never ever came to my mind LOL to do it localy tzzz, now i can work even when im without net
10 thumbs up
Irwin Ramón
Thanks so much. Steps were nicely presented and easy to understand to a beginner like me. I am trying to create an e-commerce site and even though I read that drupal is the best way to go. I will try to do it with wordpress because I read is possible. I saw a template that I really liked that was supposed to be used with drupal, but I was not able to handle it. I was able to install drupal on a local server, but I was not able to do anything with the template that I chose. I know drupal is a more powerful CMS, but for someone like me it doesn’t add to anything if I can’t understand how it works. I hope that WordPress is as easy as I read. Again, thank you for the tutorial it was clear and useful enough for beginners like me.
Eki
When I go to
http://localhost:8888/mysite/wp-admin/install.php
I get
Not Found
The requested URL /mysite/wp-admin/install.php was not found on this server.
Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) PHP/5.3.2 DAV/2 Server at localhost Port 8888
Any ideas what I am doing wrong. Much appreciate a response
Akash
Brother, you’re awesome! I mean knowing something is one and actually taking out time to help others is a mere demonstration of passion. Thanks a ton!
Chandra or Ibukerte
@ ALEX..thanks you give me a solution since I am using wamp server. The wordpress already installed on my PC. Hug from Timika, Papua, Indonesia.
Janneke
I’m a total noob at this (a) So when I try to install wordpress, it says Error: PHP is not running. I downloaded everything above, I even downloaded php seperately and after that I downloaded the WIX to manually install php, that totally didn’t work :( I do have another program called eclipse. I can open the php files and edit them, but I can’t view them. When I try that there comes a black window and it disappears, seconds after… Can someone help me??
Abida Sultana
Thanks .
arif wachyudin
nice posting!
thanx a lot bro…
Adam
Thanks so much for this guide. I was a bit daunted about all of this and you have really helped. I don’t usually show my gratitude on posts like this, but i felt i needed to on this one…
imv
Is this what I would use to just test out creating a website with WordPress and not having a live website just yet?
الايفون
we are in wordpress age thanks great post
your mother
It’s nice to answer people’s questions. Otherwise, why bother posting them?
John
Hey thanks for a great tutorial.
What if I change my mind (LOL) about the name of the wordpress folder in htdocs?
I tried changing the name of the folder from “wordpress” to “testing” and then changed the Mamp url to http://localhost/testing/ and ended up with a blank screen.
Thanks very much
John
Luke
thanks for write up this guide.
correction needed: please include this step in your guide:
– for Windows, unzip wordpress into c:\wamp\www\wordpress
Robin
My live server will be Linux based as the hosting company does not include WordPress installation for Windows. Idiot level question then:
1) if I download XAMPP to use as the local server for a local version of WordPress, should use the Linux version of XAMPP?
2) If I use the Windows version of XAMPP, will it prevent me from uploading my WordPress site to my live, Linux server?
3) If I DO have to use the Linux version of XAMPP, which Linux software would you recommend – a friend suggested Ubuntu – and would I be better off running Ubuntu with a virtual machine such as vmware to avoid issues with my regular Windows XP OS?
I am new to this, so bear with me. Thanks
Randy Wilburn
I would like to work on a site on my local computer before taking it live. My question is what do you do to take it live once you have worked on it on the local server and you like what you’ve created? Please advise.
Thanks,
RW
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Nice sharing. It helped me a lot. Thanks for upgrading my knowledge.
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THANK YOU! I’m such a newbie I was stuck on the WP site’s final instructions until I found this lovely, helpful post. I’m now up and, well, toddling, but I’d still be stuck without your help!
Cheers!
Neeraj Prasad
This is a good way to learn word-press.
Neeraj
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I love it to see. It is a very useful for user. And It is very interesting for us. I suppose to take help form you for making a WordPress website.
Thanks Neeraj
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Dave
@Robin: If you’re already running Windows, just use XAMPP for Windows. WordPress is cross-plaform, and it won’t matter which version of XAMPP you use to edit your local version. Seriously, skip vmware, skip trying to install Ubuntu and just run the Windows version of XAMPP.
Cape Verde
There are different ways of doing that, but what I generally do is export the database using the ‘tools’ menu and import into the live website, then upload all the theme files and plugins via ftp.
It takes a while but it’s quite simple.
steve
Q: so should I download MAMP into my applications folder or inside the site folder for that specific website?
Filipe Valente
Cool but the problem I’m having is how to publish it online after building it on wamp how do I change the path how do I install the database on the server thanks
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kai
I am not a developer at all and trying to work on a new theme while keeping our default WP one live. Is there an easier way to design our new theme (we’re customizing an existing theme) than to do it on a local server?
On a similar note, I tried to follow your instructions and am stuck at “Run install .php”. The url you provided is pulling up a 404 page.
thx
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hcg damla
Thank you!! Very helpful, great technique and great explanation. And looks beautiful!!
hcg damla
Cool but the problem I’m having is how to publish it online after building it on wamp how do I change the path how do I install the database on the server thanks
nicola
I am using XAMPP. I have downloaded & extracted WP. I changed the file name to wp-config.php as instructed, but when I try to open it, Windows tells me it cannot open it and needs to know what program created it. I am a beginner. Please help……..
Nigel Anderson
Is it possible to have multi-site with a local install of wordpress?
I followed your instructions for Mac — no problems, thanks — but it means the URL for the local site is “localhost:8888” etc… and if you try to create a wordpress network it throws the error:
Error: You cannot install a network of sites with your server address.
You cannot use port numbers such as :8888.
I don’t know enough about working with servers to know whether the port number can be dispensed with or not.
Thanks for an interesting set of posts.
David
same question here. I’ve tried masking the port from WP’s perspective by mapping to an external domain, but it seems to be a dead end. Someone must have gotten around this!
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Thnx I will try this to run my moms website locally and do some test befor putting it online. Just what I need.
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Elayne
I’m trying to install a local copy of WordPress on my personal computer so I can work offline and later upload my corrected site to my host server. I followed instructions from people who seem to know what they’re doing. This is what I did exactly:
1. I successfully installed MAMP on my local Mac hard drive (Local Server)
2. In the phpMyAdmin page, I create a new database with my site’s name.
3. I went to wordpress.org and downloaded the latest build of WordPress. Went to the htdocs folder (where I installed the MAMP), extracted the wordpress.zip files and moved them into my new site folder (located in ).
4. Inside my new site folder, I renamed the wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php. Opened the wp-config.php file and updated the database details according to my localhost server (db_name = mysitename, user = root, host = localhost:8889) .
5. At this point, I went to my browser and typed in so I could install WordPress. Instead of the WordPress screen, I got the following message: “The requested URL /mysite/wp-admin/install.php was not found on this server.”
I’m stuck. Please help. How do I fix this?
Thank you.
Bonnie
Change your entry from 8889 to 8888
See #5 in instructions:
With your browser, go to http://localhost:8888/mysite/wp-admin/install.php and follow the instructions to install WordPress.
John
I am having the same problem.. I went through all of the steps and I can’t open any php files in my browser at all, let along install.php. I always get the message “Not found.”
The servers are on, I did check that. And I went in and changed wp-config they way you said (8888 and 8889) and it still didn’t work. I am starting to get really frustrated, I had this operation working on my PC in minutes, but it has taken me hours of work so far on my mac and I still can’t get it working…
Daniel
This is my second time around installing wordpress locally and have going through a few (human error) mistakes.
1. Make sure MAMP preferences… is ” /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/ and that is where your folder is.
2. Double check “db_name = mysitename” with MAMP database name, and other file paths are correct. For example, are the wordpress files in a folder within mysite (/mysite/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php)?
p.s My localhost is set to 8889 and is working fine.
Anyways really came here to say thanks for the great tutorials.
Adam
Hi Guys, I am running MAMP with multiple wordpress sites and databases locally on my Mac which is great. If I want to get them onto my laptop so I can work on them out and about what to I need to do. Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Jimmy
Hi for some reason I’m having an error establishing a database connection?
do you know what might be wrong with my database or what I’m doing wrong? I followed your instructions perfectly
Ador
Thanx for this post. Thank you so much for installing wordpress tutorials. finally I could install wordpress.. please keep up to date with wordpress ……
Virginia
Great concise instructions. I’m working on converting our hotel website into WordPress platform. I decided to do it locally, on my machine. But for some reason I constantly get an error while establishing database connection. I’m using WAMP. Should I switch to XAMPP? Is there any difference? – Thanks.
Vivek
Nice post , i will try it ……
Thanks
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Ekene
Thanks for the guide. It’s self explanatory. My problem now is that I can’t install a php server in my system. I then used wamp and it installed. Trying to run it, it displays an application error message. What am I to do? Is there any other reputable server that has php server, database mysql and apache. Any help will be appreciated. My email is masterweb4real(64)yahoo(dot)com
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I’m good up to step 5…then when I eneter http://localhost:8888/mysite/wp-admin/install.php into my browser, it just prompts a download of install.php?
What have I done wrong?
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Javier
This is amazing thank you so much for doing this.
But one question, I’d like to get an e-commerce site up on WP using WPEC, do you think I should download the local server XAMPP for my PC?
Is it powerful enough for a e-commerce site?
I’m open to any suggestions, please and thank you!
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I am having great difficulty with WAMP install on my win7-64bit…I hope your tutorial is the answer…Thanks for the simple instructions for a “newbie” on WordPress running locally!
Magie
Thanks for the great tutorial.
Everything works fine for me until the actual installation process. So when I go to this address:
http://localhost:8080/magie's site/wp-admin/install.php
It seems like it’s trying to connect with localhost, and after waiting for about 3 minutes all I get is a blank page, instead of the wordpress screen.
Any thoughts that could help?
Thanks
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kavix
@magge
3 options:
1: did you actually started wamp/xamp?
2: you cant type ‘s in a url so you can try choosing a different map name
3: instead of typing localhost you can try typing http://127.0.0.1/magie's site/wp-admin/install.php
hope it help’s.
have a nice day
kavix
ohw forgot to say…. you cant use ‘ in a url and you cant use a space try – instead
vinodh
Hi,
Thanks for this. I am new to wordpress. local setup is helpful for learners like me. just did it.
regards
vinodh
Mick
wow it works !! i can see my site locally . awesome !! now I just have to learn to upload my site to my Godaddy account.. hhmm.. i know how to do this with FTP. but it owuld be cool to do it from withtin Phpmyadmin. or am I missing the point somewhere ?
Dan
If you go into your hosting account on GoDaddy you can install WordPress. It’s usually in applications on the right sidebar. It will take you through step by step setting up the database. Once it’s installed you just have to compress your theme and upload it. No FTP necessary. GoDaddy, in my opinion has great customer service so if you need help just call them and they will walk you through the install.
kesha b
Hello all,
I am waiting for my domain to be transfered, but I would like to staart working on my template.I s there a way to start working on a wordpress design before the website server is pointed?
Dan
I am getting a 404 Not Found when I try and do the final install. Using MAMP – http://localhost/iconic/wp-admin/install.php
I’ve also tried with localhost:8888 as stated in the tutorial but that isn’t working either.
Suggestions??
Dan
Scratch that…Solved the problem!
wencke
How did you solve it? I have installed xamp and created a new database. When I have to fill in the database, user and password in the wp-config file I create a password in the MySQL database and then it tells me no access. I also have the problem when I dont set a password then it tells me 404 not found…I am very new to MySQL and would really appreciate some help.
Thanks
Amit Kumar
I dont know how to proceed after step 4. What do I have to type for local host.? it is showing url not found in this server.
Any one help me….
Basit @ PHP Tutorials
Very nice tutorial, It helps me alot for installing wordpress. Thanks for writing for us :)
bitkisel
Thank you Thank you!! This is organized very nicelyasd
marty
Thank you so much for this very clear post. I find that being self taught leaves lots of holes in my theory, and often I read more than I need to get where I want to get. This was so on the money, and I was able to troubleshoot what I did wrong.
Thank you, thank you, thank you,
Marty
Mazhar
Nice Post, i would like to know which one is better, xampp or wamp?? given the fact that my system is a bit slow..
tham
how to insert the theme and banner
Nick
I cannot get past step 2.
I get error 2002 when I try to click on myPHPadmin from the MAMP startup page. I’ve got green lights for Apache and SQL, but I cannot even access myPHPadmin. (I do not have any duplicate processes running in activity monitor).
Any ideas on what to do?
pushpa kumari
hi
Islam Muslim
Thank’s for this (Installing WordPress Locally) great tutorial. I was having a hard time with those.
hasan
wow thats great method.thx for the article.Thanks for the great tutorial.
سرور
thnks for your comment
kajhaqla
thanx to help ua to make a bolg
Ellada
So I’m using XAMPP and I did everything I was supposed to do but then when I insert http://localhost:8888/mysite/wp-admin/install.php through my web browser (Firefox) it says, “Problem loading page.” I think there may be something wrong with XAMPP but is there anyone that can help me?
Barbara
Ellada, try to put just http://localhost/mysite/wp-admin/install.php . Worked here and i’m using xampp too! :)
Georgiana
I’ve been having the same problem when I entered the url. A page with the following message “Error establishing a database connection” prompted.
However, after tried a bunch of solutions, I managed to get it to work. In the wp-config.php, where you enter the password, I just left nothing between the apostrophes. It works now!
Alquiler yates Ibiza
However, after tried a bunch of solutions, I managed to get it to work. In the wp-config.php, where you enter the password, I just left nothing between the apostrophes.
Wordpress Family
Nice tutorial!
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Surendar
I have executed 1 to 4 and when I am executing step 5th with command line:
http://localhost/mysite/wp-admin/install.php
Error establishing a database connection
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host’s database server is down.
Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
Are you sure that the database server is running?
If you’re unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums.
Rosemary
I tried repeatedly…I uninstalled the WAMP and reinstalled it. There was no htdoc folder, but I put the WordPress folder in the www folder….nothing seems to work for me.
I created the wordpress database in phpmyAdmin….but it never asked me to set a password…I’m SOOOOO confused. Help would be appreciated.
Peter
Am using WAMP in windows and am unable to run wp-admin/install.php.pls help me on how to go about it at step 5
Peter
Am using WAMP in windows and am unable to run wp-admin/install.php on a local pc.please help me on how to go about it at step 5
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Muhammed Athimannil
I’m gonna start with this.
Thanks a lot :)
krishna manohar
Good—————I like it
Anonymous
I had the same problem after renaming the wp-config-sample i changed the name back then it worked
Mark Wonsdrik
Is Gutenberg the future for WordPress?
Aigars Silkalns
It definitely is. Adoption rate is already very high and it just the very beginning.