Simple Steps to install WordPress locally

by Mohammad Azmat Ulhaq

Install WordPress on your machine through WAMP or XAMP software.

WAMP server is best.

Before starting the installation of WordPress on your machine, let me tell you something about it.

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system based on MySQL and PHP. To use WordPress you must have a server (WAMP, XAMP) installed on your machine for its working environment. Without a server you won’t be able to install WordPress. The server you will install, it should support PHP and MySQL requirements.

Installing WordPress is quite easy and simple, so I suggest you to be patient. Here in this article I have used Wamp software (supports PHP and MySQL) for installing WordPress. You can use any web server of your choice to install WordPress.

Steps for installing WordPress

Step 1. Install a software called WAMP (which has prebuilt  localhost server) on your machine.

WAMP stands for Windows Apache MySQL and PHP.

Simply open any one of your browsers and download Wamp software on your system. This will provide a platform to install WordPress easily. Remember one thing, while installing Wamp, no other servers should be in active mode otherwise it will conflict installation of Wamp.

Download it from edoc.com or may be other sites.

Step 2. After downloading Wamp, just do double click on its icon to run and install it in one of your directories (By default it gets installed on Local disk C ).

Step #3. Remember, every time you on your machine first you need to activate the (web server) Wamp server simply by double clicking on its icon. After activating it that you will see a green “W” mark (which looks red by default) on your task-bar.

Activating Wamp Server

Step 4. Now open your browser and type www.wordpress.org and easily download the latest version of WordPress as shown in the figure below:

Downloading WordPress

Step 5.  Open your directory where you have installed Wamp server and perform the following steps.

Directory (Local disk C, by default wamp is installed in this directory) –> wamp –> www–> copy the zip folder of WordPress here and do right click on it and select “extract here”. Now make a copy of the folder and rename it, here for e.g., it is renamed as “wordpress1”. Making a multiple copy of WordPress and renaming makes you comfortable to create your own blogs and website.

Step 6. Open your web browser and type the following on your address bar “localhost/phpmyadmin/” and press enter. Following  page shown in figure will display on your screen:

Database for WordPress

Now select the database and create a database for your WordPress, lets say for e.g. “table” as shown in the figure below. Simply click on create and your database is ready to use.

Creating Database

Step 7. Now type “localhost” on your browser and from there select your copied folder (the one which you renamed for your WordPress website).

Step 8. After this following page will be obtained as shown in the figure below. Now click on the button ”Create a Configuration file” on the same page.

Configuring WordPress

Step 9. Now after performing the above step, on the next page click on “Let’s go” button.

Downloading WordPress

Step 10. Now this step is very important. You need to be little careful here. Keep in mind few things and proceed in this way:-

Database Name should be same as that what you have created earlier for your WordPress.

Username   is “root” by default as per MySQL user name.

The password should be left blank if you haven’t mentioned it at the time of creating your database otherwise type the same one if you have mentioned it earlier.

Leave the other fields as it is. Now your page should look like as shown in the figure below. At last click on “Submit” button to proceed further.

Step 11. After this simply fill the respective fields on the  next page and at last click on the button ”Install WordPress”. Your page will look like as shown in the figure below:

Information of user for WordPress

Step 12. And finally here comes your destination point. It’s a bingo from your side. Yes! you have successfully installed WordPress on your machine. Just to make sure that you have done all the steps in a perfect manner, you can login to your account.

WordPress is installed

AND GO AHEAD .....

after logout to log in agan "localhost/wordpress 1/wp-admin"

rember /wp-admin always...