Install WordPress at Home
Hello everybody, at previous posts I’ve talk everything around preparing development tools for offline activities. For some of you that not familiar with the term, here what I means ‘offline activities’:
- Person who have laptop
- Person who have workstation / PC at home
- Other
They don’t have hosting account and want to try everything locally.
OK, let start install WordPress at home 
Download WordPress
Get latest wordpress from wordpress.org. Pick .tar.gz or .zip file.
Save to any folder and extract to :
C:\wamp\www
Running Wampserver
Click Start -> All Programs -> Wampserver -> Start Wampserver
Open Browser and type the address :
http://winhows.net/wordpress and hit Enter (winhows.net created from previous tutorial about setting fake domain)
The address should be open and display this error :
There doesn’t seem to be a
wp-config.phpfile. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create awp-config.phpfile through a web interface, but this doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file.
Move the file and create config file for wordpress
Previous address (http://winhows.net/wordpress) isn’t good as I want the address is :
http://winhows.net
Would make me easier for future work (migrating to real host etc)
The easiest way to do that is simple. Cut and paste all content of ‘wordpress’ folder to its root folder.
Before move
After move the content
After move the content next step is create config file that easily accomplished by rename existing file :
wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php
Create MySQL Database
Open http://winhows.net/phpmyadmin
and create database ‘winhows’.
Edit wp-config.php
Change these variables :
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘putyourdbnamehere’);/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘usernamehere’);/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘yourpasswordhere’);
Save file.
Install WordPress ’5 minutes famous way’
Open :
http://winhows.net
Fill all info and don’t forget to use email account that I’ve made before.
Press “Install WordPress” button will give me this message :
Success!
WordPress has been installed. Were you expecting more steps? Sorry to disappoint.
| Username | admin |
|---|---|
| Password | FrsyDyc)mls@Note that password carefully! It is a random password that was generated just for you. |
Great, everything looks Good.
Check Email
Oops, one more thing to check.
Email notification.
Just open your webmail as previously installed.
Everything work as planned.
See you in next tutorial.
Stay Health!
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