Well this post is not for the regular RSS readers, but sure is for those nomads who look around how to setup wordpress on their systems and land on to Digimantra using Google Search. I know wordpress is one Open Source blogging application which is pretty easy to install but for some who are not so “Computer Friendly” its like rocket science. I have seen people paying to install a new theme , plugins, changing header text, logo etc 
This is how it goes, well without wasting much of your time, let me get straight to the business. Let me put it in short steps and then explain those one by one.
1) Download XAMP, wordpress (try to download the latest version, links may change in future, please use google for broken links)
2) Install XAMP.
3) Extract the downloaded wordpress file and keep it into the xamp’s htdocs directory.
4) Start XAMP server and create new database.
5) In the browser type http://localhost/wordpress (wordpress being the directory name pasted in the step 3).
Now let me explain these one by one.
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I found the below tutorial more detailed. I use Xampp lite but it doesnt support the “friendly url” permalinks of wordpress. Maybe it s a XAMPP lite thing. Does it work on normal Xampp?
http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/06/installing-wordpress-locally-under.html
yeah the permalinks should work on both.Since XAMPP light also has Apache & Php both.
Thanks for sharing link, might help others around.
cheers!!
Sachin Khosla
hi sachin sir .
i m not going to comment on your post
i need your help even the way of mine contacting you is dumb but i hve no idea to contact you
we have prepared a web site using wordpress and we want it should be seen in cell phones too. pls tell me how can we do this???
pls help…
hi chandeep,
you can contact me on the email address specified at
http://www.digimantra.com/contact
Thanks for airing this again.
May I just pick one hole though?
With security being what it is today, the Administrator Username should never be left as `root’ or the Password open, since the hackers will try to use set-up defaults first, and in this case will find an open invitation to wreak havoc.
Pick a `strong’ Administrator User Name and Password, something that can’t be guessed; that is each being made up of obscure characters, punctuation marks, anything you like, and at least 10 to 15 characters long each.
User profiles can be set up in WordPress later on, but these can be less complex because user settings can exclude access to settings that have a bearing on site function or access to users’ personal details.
PS: My previous post assumes, as is usual, that even a local WP installation stands a good chance of being hosted on a machine that also has access to the outside world.