Friday, October 24, 2014

How to Install Wordpress on Local Host step by step tutorial

What is WordPress ?

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. 

WordPress has customization facilities like theme, plugin etc. 



Step by Step WordPress Installation and configuration







How To Create WordPress Website

Step 1

Install and Configure Wampserver

PHP and MySQL base website require a web server to run website, so that first it require to  Install local web server on your computer, here is how to you configure WampServer

Step 2

Download latest version of WordPress


To get the latest version of wordpress visit https://wordpress.org.


After download wordpress file then extract the zip file and copy the wordpress folder. Go to C:wamp\www and paste wordpress folder there. Rename the wordpress folder to anything you want. For this tutorial, we renamed our wordpress directory to testsite. Now open a web browser and go to: http://localhost/testsite/


Step 3

Create a database for WordPress

To install WordPress you need to create blank database. Click on the Wamp Server icon in windows Task Bar and then click on phpmyadmin.

Now choose your database name and create it.



Step 4

Install WordPress 

After create database now write this url in browser http://localhost/testsite/ then following window will show


Select your desire language for installation or you can leave it as it is and click on continue



Click on Let's go


Now you need to provide your database information. Here put information, in my case, my database name is testdb.Default database username will be root and password is blank. if you wish to you can create database user name and password. for this tutorial i have use default user name root and leave the password blank. Click on the submit button and WordPress will create a configuration file for you.
Just click on Run the install and following screen will appear.
Now complete the fields with accurate information and press Install WordPress. After finish the installation process following screen will show.
 Now click on Log In to access into admin area of WordPress.
Complete of installation process.



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