Comments on: How to Install WordPress on Your Local Machine

By: CashParadise

CashParadise — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:31:34 +0000

Thanks alot for this wonderful tutorial…
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By: Benja

Benja — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:22:32 +0000

Beautiful tutorial, thank you lots Lisa!

Just a note to whoever might have issues:
1) to go ‘phpMyAdmin’ (in step 7) you need to click the ‘admin’ button next to the ‘MySQL’ database module shown in step 5 (may be that was only in d case for XAMPP install!)
2) take note of comment 27 while editing wp-config file, and
3) make sure you uncheck the ‘work offline’ mode for your browser (under file) if some reason u disabled your net connection before the installations.

By: janr3y

janr3y — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:13:40 +0000

thank YOU SOOOOOO MUCHHHH!!!!

=)…

By: John G

John G — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:29:21 +0000

Thank goodness someone came up with this. I was pulling my hair out (what little I have left!) trying to figure this out! The only way I could edit anything before was on the server side. Now if I only knew how to pull in an existing site (and make a local copy to edit) and then re-upload it back to the server!!

By: april

april — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:23:49 +0000

hi there! i’ve been experimenting with wordpress in my local server using xampp for more than a month now. just a while ago, i experiences this problem.. my links to other pages won’t work. at first it was redirecting to xampp’s homepage. then i decided to uninstall xampp and install again.. now, when i click on the links for other wordpress page, it gives me this Object Not Found error 404. what could have gone wrong?

By: Bikin website

Bikin website — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:00:02 +0000

I like this tutorial, thanks for making it.

By: Veronica Jones-Brown

Veronica Jones-Brown — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:24:22 +0000

Hey, Lisa, thanks for this tutorial. I followed each step of the tutorial and it worked the first time.

Thanks again!

By: Eileen

Eileen — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:20:31 +0000

I have worked all the way through and followed your notes, putting WordPress in htdocs, etc.

When I go to change wp-config-sample it will not resave in the same file and I don’t know if I can put it somewhere else. The error message is “cannot save to this file”.

If I put it somewhere else i.e. wp-admin file, and I go to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php I get Object not found: Error 404.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:49:28 +0000

when I am navigat to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

this comes up

Parse error: parse error in C:\xampplite\htdocs\wordpress\wp-config.php on line 77

can you tell me whats wrong?

By: lisa

lisa — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:27:56 +0000

Hi Anton

You need to find out what folder WordPress is installed on your host and just upload your entire theme folder to that location and when you login to your WP admin panel you should be able to switch to that theme.

So I’m assuming you have all your WP files in a themes folder on your local machine. Simply upload this entire folder to the “themes” folder on your server and that’s all you should have to do.

You can upload the folder via an FTP program (recommended) or you can do it through your host’s control panel.