Every time when I start a new blog or a Website using wordpress , I like to have a local copy of it in my computer for easy access and to make any changes or to find errors in my local computer itself than finding and correcting it online. So for that purpose I use Wamp Server. Now I will tell you step by step procedure to install, configure the wampserver and include wordpress in it and start creating your website in the localhost without the need of an Internet Connection
1. Download the Latest Version of Wampserver (As of this writing it is of Version 2.0h) from http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php (Approximately 16 MB)
2. When you try install the wampserver file by double clicking it, the setup will show an important information as below,
“Please do not try to upgrade from wamp5 1.x”
3. If you have already installed the wamp5 1.x , then save your data , uninstall it, and delete that wamp folder before installing this new wampserver 2.
4. If it is your first time, you are installing this then, just continue the install by pressing “Yes”.
5. Click “Next” to Continue.
6. Select “I accept the agreement” and press “Next”.
7. The Default path for the install of Wamp Server 2 is “C:\wamp”. You can change if you want by clicking the “Browse” button or leave it as such and press “Next”.
8. Select the Additional Icons (If you want) and press “Next”.
9. Click “Install” to continue with the installation.
10. Please wait until the setup installs the Wampserver2 in your computer.
11. Please choose your default browser to which the wamp server will be associated. But if you are not sure what you have to do, then just click “Open”.
12. Just leave the default values as such for the “PHP Mail Parameters” and click “Next”.
13. Click “Finish” to exit the setup (Make sure that the “launch wampserver now” option is checked)
14. Now you will see a “speedometer like icon” on the notification area of the taskbar.
15. Just wait for sometime, so that the speedometer is full white (Represents its fully ready).
16. Single click on the wampserver icon, and select Apache –> httpd.conf ( This is the main Apache HTTP server configuration file. It contains the configuration directives that give the server its instructions )
17. The file will be opened in notepad. Go to Edit –> find or just press “Ctrl +f”.
18. Type “mod_rewrite” in the find what box and click “Find”. It will find the word in that file and highlight it for you.
19. Just remove the “#” symbol present at the start of that mod_rewrite line. (This is to “switch on” the mod_rewrite rule which will then only allow you to have pretty permalinks in wordpress)
20. Now “Save” the file and close it. Wampserver is Ready.
21. Now Download Latest Stable copy of WordPress (As of this writing it is WordPress 2.8) from http://www.wordpress.org/latest.zip
22. After downloading , Single click the wampserver icon and select “www directory”. A folder will open.
23. Extract the wordpress files in to that folder.
24. Now Again Single click the wampserver icon and select “PhpmyAdmin”
25. Select “Privileges” from the top menu.
26. Click on “Add a New User”.
27. Enter your “username” first.
28. Select the Dropdown box next to Host and choose “Local” from it.”Localhost” will be displayed automatically in the next box.
29. Type the same password in the third and fourth options.
30. In the next “Database for user” select ” Create database with same name and grant all privileges”.
31. In the “Global Privileges” click on the “Check all” option and then Press “GO”.
32. Now you should get a “You have added a new user” message.
33. Now go to http://localhost/ in your browser.
34. Select the “WordPress” under “your projects” (please note you can change the folder name to anything small or to remember something)
35. Click on “Create a configuration file” and then click on “Let’s Go”.
36. Enter the value of database name , username and password (which you give before in the PhpmyAdmin)
37. Please remember the database name and the username are the same in our case. Don’t touch the “Database Host” and “Table Prefix”. Leave it as such and press “Submit”.
38. Now click on “Run the Install”.
39. Enter your blog title and e-mail.No need to select the box which says “Allow my blog to appear in search engines like Google and Technorati” since this is a local install.
40. Now click on “Install WordPress”
41. Now Note that password carefully! It is a random password that was generated just for you.and press “Log in”
42. Now Login inside the wordpress using the username “admin” and the password you get from the previous step.
43. Now you will see a reminder notice to change your password as below
Notice: you’re using the auto-generated password for your account. Would you like to change it to something you’ll remember easier?
44. Now click on “Yes, Take me to the Profile Page”.
45. Here you can choose your own password along with colour schemes, display name, biography etc.. And click “update profile”.
46. Now you can use this WordPress Installation as same as the one you are having online.
47. You can write posts, install themes, test-drive plugins and most probably everything you can do in this local install of wordpress.
48. When Finished , Right click on the Wampserver icon and click “EXIT”.
49. Always remember to “start wampserver” before using wordpress at the local host.
50. Enjoy the world of Blogging Without the need of Internet.
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Thanks for article.
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Nice article
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Good Job there! Remember? You were the one who told me about Wamp Server and I had a hard time figuring this out then!
Also, the new theme is nice.
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Thanks for visiting my blog and Ya..I remember when i told you about this.but you doesn’t seem to be understand what it does, at that time.But i know now,you have learned a lot more about the wampserver by the tutorials you post with the localhost images.
New theme.??..I don’t know exactly which theme you are talking about…Ha..Ha..Ha..
Nice post Arun, just my 2 cents Picture worth a million. If you can add few pictures that will be very helpful for many.
Thanks.Ya I know Adding pictures will be helpful to many.hope to do it in the future.thanks for the comment and suggestion.
Amazing!!! As easy as it comes. I spent most of a day trying to get php on my pc and sifting through information. Started over with your direction and have wordpress up and running in a matter of minutes. I just wish I had found this post 8 hours ago.
great to know that my post helped you.thanks a lot for taking time to comment.
Thanks for the Article.Bookmarked.
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That was so helpful: THX A LOT
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Thank you so so much for this!!
Hi…this is what i needed…I just started working with wordpress via wamp server…Thnx a lot..
This is simply great Arun. Thanks a lot!
Hi.
This was a very informative post for me. Most of the articles online was for installing wamp for Mac. This one really helped me out.
Being a Ruby on Rails developer, I do not have much knowledge about Php and word-press. So hopefully I am looking to learn stuffs quicker.
Thanks once again for this wonderful article
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Hi Arun first of all I want to say a big thanks for publishing this helpful article. to test any script I always depend upon my paid web server but it cost me and I always face internet connection problem as my Internet Service Provider is too poor and their connection is too bad maximum of time i face internet problem, so to test any script in this situation is too difficult so I want to install PHP, MYSQL,APACHE on my PC and I am having following config. system
My O/S is :– WINDOWS XP, Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor, 1 GB Ram and 360 GB Hard Disk.
I have successfully downloaded and installed the “Wamp Server Software” and i followed your tutorial step by step but i am facing some problem. Above you have written that after successful installation of the software
“you will see a “speedometer like icon” on the notification area of the task bar and wait for sometime, so that the speedometer is full white (Represents its fully ready)”
but in my case the speedometer is not turning completely white, it turns partially white and partially red and i have waited for 1 hr but still it showing the same problem. and i ignored this sign and followed other steps provided by u, and extracted the fresh wordpress in “www directory” and after it I clicked on the phpmyadmin option but i found “The page cannot be found” error message
so what to do now, if u don’t mind plz help me out from this problem because previosuly i tried to install php,mysql and apache separately on my PC but i faced many problems so “Wampserver ” is only the last alternative option for me…..
So plz help me out if you can….
Waiting for ur reply….
Thanks.
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what a step by step guide but it will be more beautiful if you add some pics with this post of Installing WordPress locally in Windows Using Wamp Server
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Excellent step by step guide Arun.
Many thanks for making life just that little bit easier.
Everything worked as you said, with a wee bit of common sense added.
All the very best
Chris
Thanks for the step by step guide, life is going to be much simpler now that I can set my wordpress sites up and then test them locally before uploading them. This has to be the best guide on the internet.
Thanks again
Very good article. Very short and sharp. Now on the way to jump from joomla to WP. TQVM
Great step by step tutorial, very usefully. Now i can edit wp theme in locally.