How to install WordPress in localhost
WordPress is the most commonly used blogging platform. If you are a developer, you may wish to test a lot of things in your machine. It may be related to the development of themes and plugins. WordPress can be installed in your machine locally.
- You must have mysql,php and apache installed in your machine.
- Create a database in mysql for wordpress
- Download wordpress.
- Unzip and untar the file
$ tar -xzf latest.tar.gz
- Now find out the root directory of your Apache. The value will be present in httpd.conf
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs"
- Now copy the wordpress directory to the Document Root directory
$ sudo cp -r wordpress /usr/local/apache2/htdocs
- Now start apache
$ sudo apachectl start
- Enter in your browser the following address “http://localhost/wordpress”
- If everything is fine, you will see a guided menu to install wordpress in your machine.
- Enter the database name, username and password for the database created. You can follow the steps for installing wordpress in a web server.
In some cases, you may not be able to create a wp-config.php file, then follow the following procedure
$ sudo cp wordpress/wp-config-sample.php wordpress/wp-config.php
Edit wp-config.php file.
/** 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');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
Enter the values for database(putyourdbnamehere), username(usernamehere) and password(yourpasswordhere).
Enter “http://localhost/wordpress/install.php” in your browser. Now you will be able to successfully install wordpress in your machine
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