XAMPP Server And WordPress Installation
Content Management System (CMS)
• A Content Management System is a software that enables you to manage your website without the knowledge of programming.
• Many of the CMS are available free of cost. What you need is just a domain and a server.
• Upload the CMS to your server and DONE !!!
WordPress
• Many of the CMS are available free of cost. What you need is just a domain and a server.
• Upload the CMS to your server and DONE !!!
WordPress
• Wordpress is the popular CMS among others.
• Almost 25% of the internet has websites build in Wordpress.
• Simple User Interface, easy dashboard (admin panel), themes and plugins make this CMS the best.
• Make any kind of website with this.
Joomla
• Almost 25% of the internet has websites build in Wordpress.
• Simple User Interface, easy dashboard (admin panel), themes and plugins make this CMS the best.
• Make any kind of website with this.
Joomla
• Joomla is the next popular CMS after wordpress.
• The User Interface is a bit annoying but all in all the CMS is good.
• Joomla is best for e-commerce.
Local Server
• The User Interface is a bit annoying but all in all the CMS is good.
• Joomla is best for e-commerce.
Local Server
• Localhost is a hostname that means this computer and may be used to access the computer's own
network services.
• To run our website without server and domain, we need a platform which will run our files.
• This platform will act as our server.
• Download XAMPP, the most popular platform for running websites on your own computer.
To download XAMPP, Click Here.
It is a simple installation.
To download WordPress, Click Here.
Unzip the file.
Assuming That You Have Installed XAMPP / WAMP Server And Wordpress File, we move forward.
Start XAMP Server.
The Panel Looks something like this :
Start Apache and MySQL.
If you get any errors like port is not empty or something like this, then click on Config and select httpd.conf.
Here, change the Listen 80 to Listen 8080 and ServerName localhost:80 to ServerName localhost:8080. Then go to httpd-ssl.conf and change Listen 443 to Listen 4433 and to .
This might solve your problem.
Visit http://localhost/ if you do not get any errors or visit http://localhost:8080/
You should see this :
This verifies that your local server is ready to rock and roll !!!
Creating A Database
Now go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin.
We have to create a database so that our wordpress gets installed on it.
Go to Databases and create a new database.
If you want, you can create a user for your database. Go to privileges and add a new user. However, we will use "root" as it is the default user and has all rights.
Copying Wordpress To Folder
Next, we have to copy the wordpres file downloaded to the htdocs folder in case of XAMPP or to www directory in case of WAMP.
Website Is Ready
Visit the site like :
http://localhost/example and you should see the popular window of WordPress.
Select your language and click continue.
Database connection.
In order to tart wordpress, we need to connect it to our database that we created earlier. Enter the details as beside and submit.
If you are making a live site, then replace localhost by the server name. It is something like server18.website.com or only website.com
After successful completion, login to your website and you should see the dashboard of WordPress.
You can change your theme, add plugins, add posts and do many other amazing things.
Recommended themes : Nictitate / Vantage / Sydney.
Recommended plugins : Meta Slider, Page Builder, Contact Form 7.
The above is the minimum requirement to build a fully functional website.
network services.
• To run our website without server and domain, we need a platform which will run our files.
• This platform will act as our server.
• Download XAMPP, the most popular platform for running websites on your own computer.
To download XAMPP, Click Here.
It is a simple installation.
To download WordPress, Click Here.
Unzip the file.
Assuming That You Have Installed XAMPP / WAMP Server And Wordpress File, we move forward.
Start XAMP Server.
The Panel Looks something like this :
Start Apache and MySQL.
If you get any errors like port is not empty or something like this, then click on Config and select httpd.conf.
Here, change the Listen 80 to Listen 8080 and ServerName localhost:80 to ServerName localhost:8080. Then go to httpd-ssl.conf and change Listen 443 to Listen 4433 and
This might solve your problem.
You should see this :
This verifies that your local server is ready to rock and roll !!!
Creating A Database
Now go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin.
We have to create a database so that our wordpress gets installed on it.
Go to Databases and create a new database.
If you want, you can create a user for your database. Go to privileges and add a new user. However, we will use "root" as it is the default user and has all rights.
Next, we have to copy the wordpres file downloaded to the htdocs folder in case of XAMPP or to www directory in case of WAMP.
Website Is Ready
Visit the site like :
http://localhost/example and you should see the popular window of WordPress.
Select your language and click continue.
Database connection.
In order to tart wordpress, we need to connect it to our database that we created earlier. Enter the details as beside and submit.
If you are making a live site, then replace localhost by the server name. It is something like server18.website.com or only website.com
After successful completion, login to your website and you should see the dashboard of WordPress.
You can change your theme, add plugins, add posts and do many other amazing things.
Recommended themes : Nictitate / Vantage / Sydney.
Recommended plugins : Meta Slider, Page Builder, Contact Form 7.
The above is the minimum requirement to build a fully functional website.
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