Recently WordPress released WordPress 2.7 for wordpress.com blogs, now its the time to test it on our blogs. But testing WordPress 2.7 directly on running blog will be risky and may cause problems. Even if you are testing your own Plugin before releasing it, you can test it on your locally installed wordpress.
Requirements
[Download WAMP server]
WAMP stands for Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
If you want to test latest stable release then download it from WordPress.org/Download
Else If you want to test under testing released then you can get it from WordPress.org/development
Steps
1.Install WAMP on your system
2.Start Wamp Server. Go to Program Files >> Wamp Server >> start Wamp Server.
3.To create new databases Go to PHPmyadmin and create required databases for your wordpress.
4.Create new user for your wordpress and give proper privileges to that user using “Privileges” tab.
Most probably you need to give all privileges to this new user with the created database to handle wordpress.
5.Copy the wordpress files that you have downloaded in specific folder in WAMP server home. i.e. “DRIVE:\wamp\www\”.
6.Now edit the file “wp-config-sample.php” in your wordpress directory and fill up the proper database information like username, password, databasename in line number 3,4,5 and save the file as “wp-config.php”.
7. Open any browser enter “http://localhost/” and this will open your WAMP server page, install wordpress from “Your Projects” section.
After installing you can use your wordpress as your actual blog, you can import your online database from your online blog and can try everything on this locally installed wordpress.
In this way you can host wordpress on your personal computer, It almost feels like having your personal wordpress hosting.
Dec 5, 2008 at 2:27 pm
I use this while customizing my theme before it goes live on my blog…
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Dec 5, 2008 at 9:39 pm
using this really eases our lifes. I use xampp server but it is basically the same thing as wamp. I use it to test scripts, do worpress bans convertions. It is really great
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Dec 6, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Chetan, thanks for coming up with a post. i will follow this.
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Dec 6, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Actually you don’t have to do step no 6.you can skip that and configure it in the step 7 in the wordpress surface itself. Try it.
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Jan 4, 2009 at 7:43 am
In other words, setting up a local host on your machine. This can be achieved by some other solutions too, such as, xmapp, LAMP (for Linux OS), MAMP (for Mac OS). SAMP (for Solaris OS) and FAMP (for FreeBSD OS).
Good post for new webmasters, by the way
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Mar 23, 2009 at 12:52 am
After create the user and give the correct privileges phpAdmin can not connect
#1045 – Access denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’ (using password: NO)
I’m searching for help online but I couldn’t resolved yet.
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