5) Installing WordPress
Finally the time has come where you actually gonna hit the browser and start you own blog in just few seconds. Copy paste or type it in your browser http://localhost/mysite , i assume that mysite is the name of the folder which u copied in the step 3. Now follow the steps as written below to successfully install the wordpress.
Step 1 - After you open http://localhost/mysite .. you will be asked to create configuration file. Hit the button !!
Step 2 – On the next screen, read the instruction (if u want to 
) and then hit Let’s Go !!
Step 3 – In this step enter the information as show in the image below :
Step 4 – After you hit submit, you will be taken to next page, where you gotta hit, Run Install !!
Yeah that was all, you have the wordpress installed phewwww.. Now enter the blog title, email address etc as per your convenience and ponder into the world’s best blogging application 
Thanks to Matt for creating such a great application.
If still you got any problems, just let me know.
Cheers!!
Sachin Khosla
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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.