4) Start XAMP server and create new database.
Brilliant, eh ? Now that have everything right on the place, let us start the XAMP server. From your start menu you can start the XAMP control center and there you can hit Start for Apache and Mysql. Now that you have started Server and Database instance, lets create a schema or database for wordpress tables. For this you can download Mysql’s Gui Tools or you can create it from command line. Well please download and create using GUI, otherwise if you are not good at tech stuff, you might end messing up everything. Start the GUI tools, the default credentials for mysql is Username root and password blank, Just look at the picture below and you can see after hitting ok, it will create a schema called wordpress.
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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.