Installing WordPress on Windows
4#WordPress #Windows #InstallGuide
Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0231.html
01. Download XAMPP https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/
02. Download WordPress https://wordpress.org/latest.zip
03. Download Microsoft Visual C++ https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe
04. Install Microsoft Visual C++
05. Right click the downloaded XAMPP file ≫ Extract All...
06. Right click the downloaded Wordpress .zip file ≫ Extract All...
07. Make a copy of wordpress/wp-config-sample.php and name it wp-config.php
08. Cut the wordpress folder inside the XAMPP/htdocs directory
09. Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example
10. Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location
11. Run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe
12. Click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL
13. Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin
14. Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space ≫ Open PowerShell windows here...
15. Type the following in the PowerShell window to setup the WordPress database
./mysql -u root
CREATE DATABASE wordpress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpress_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'W0rdPr3ss!!';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
16. Open a web browser and navigate to https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/
17. Copy the response for use shortly
18. Navigate to XAMPP/htdocs/wordpress and edit wp-config.php with a text editor
19. Press CTRL+F and search for 'DB_NAME'
20. Update the database name, username and password
21. Press CTRL+F and search for 'AUTH_KEY'
22. Paste the secure secret keys generated earlier, overwriting the template
23. Save the changes to wp-config.php
24. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/wordpress
25. The Wordpress setup screen should be displayed
26. Select a language ≫ Click Continue
27. Create a site title and WordPress login ≫ Click Install WordPress
28. When the installation completes, login with the WordPress credentials created in the previous step
29. Welcome to your very own, self-hosted WordPress installation
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