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Someone who wants to be a web developer and want to check their creation without having an actual server is powered by XAMPP. It creates the server on your local computer which can run PHP as well as MySQL. All the things needed for your wordpress web data space is available through XAMPP. In other word it is an”offline web server” or one can call it is a “virtual server” software. You can test your Wordpress theme, plugins, and scripts using XAMPP software.

I would recommend this program for anyone who interested in developing Wordpress theme.

Click to Download XAMPP Here

1) After downloading install it into root of your C drive.

2) During installation in SERVICE SECTION select to install Apache and MySQL as service.

3) After final installation open your browser and type and hit http://localhost

4) Congratulation! Now you have your own local hosted server. Select your language as English.

5) From left sidebar menu, as shown in picture select phpMyAdmin.

Or you can select directly by typing http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ to your browser.

6) On the screen let us see the actions section. In MySQL localhost to create the database ,put “wordpress” and select utf8_unicod_ci (last option) in the drop down collision menu. And click create button.

7)This is how your next screen will look like after clicking.

Now return back to home by either clicking on home icon or phpMyAdmin logo.

9)Next screen will looks as follows. click to select privileges.

10) Click on Add a New User. For user name field type any name. Mostly select your name for simplicity. For host, select local. For Password, type a value, but it’s highly recommended that you use the Generate Password button to randomly generate a password for better security. Other way you can also keep a password field as no password( using blank)

Remember each field; you will be using it later on.

11) Set the global privileges of Wordpress user. You should try to limit the privileges of your database users to a minimum to improve security, but you are using local server, select check all and hit go at right bottom.

12) If everything went well, you’ll see a confirmation that you’ve created the user successfully.

13)Add user to in Database-specific privileges field set. In the Add privileges on the following database field, select Wordpress.

14)Install latest version of Wordpress on your computer. Wordpress is freely available at official Wordpres.org site.

Click to downlaod Wordpres Here

15) Extract zip file and copy folder into c\xampp\htdoc. Kindly not here, folder name should be same as that we used to create database. Wordpress provide software with version name, so rename folder name same as your database name that you have selected. Here we use “wordpress”. Or all wordpress software content files should place in

c\xampp\htdocs\wordpress

16) Configur wordpress by entering MySQL database information.Open the wp-config-sample.php file in your wordpres folder. Open it with notepad or wordpad. look for the lines shown in picture below.

replace putyourdbname with your database name. here “wordpress” is our database.

replace usernamehere with your selected user name.

replace yourpasswordhere with password.If no password selected then keep this sectionblank (important).

Let us see example:

17)Save wp-config-sample.php file as wp-config.php after editing and place it in same folder.This file serve everything needed for your login.kindly notice,now there is no wp-confige-sample.php file. we need only edited wp-config.php file.

18)to finish the wordpress installation type the url as

http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php in your browser and hit.the following screen will appears.

19)Hit the Install Wordpress and follow the steps .copy  your username as admin and auto generated password elsewhere.In next login screen just put it.If everything went well ,  you would land on the homepage of your wordpress with wordpress default theme.

20)Check your wordpress folder for wp-content folder in it.This is the folder known as content folder .If you have your own developed theme then put your themes & plugins in respective themes and plugin folder to test it.

21) www://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin is it as URL to login into your administrator account.

www://localhost/wordpress is URL  to open this wordpress blog.

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