To use WordPress you must have a server (WAMP, XAMP) installed on your machine for its working environment. Without a server you won’t be able to install WordPress.
- Download/Install WAMP Server: WordPress needs a web server (which could be anyone, for e.g. I have used WAMP software for installing WordPress) to work on so first you need to download and install a software called WAMP (which has prebuilt localhost server) on your machine.
- Activating WAMP Server: Remember, every time you turn on your machine, first you will need to activate WAMP server simply by double clicking on its icon.
- Download WordPress Zip:Open your browser. Go to www.wordpress.org/download/ and easily download the latest version of WordPress.
- Deploy the code at Wamp Directory: Open your directory where you have installed WAMP server & copy the zip folder of WordPress here and do right click on it and select “extract here”.
Now make a copy of the folder and rename it, here for e.g., it is renamed as “WebsiteName” - Create Database: Open your web browser window and type the following on your address bar “localhost/phpmyadmin/” and press enter.
Now, select the database and create a database for your WordPress, lets say for e.g. “table” as shown in the figure below.
Simply click on create and your database is ready to use. - Install WordPress file: Now type “localhost” on your browser. From there, select your copied folder (the one which you renamed for your WordPress website).
After this, following page will be obtained as shown in the figure below.
Now, click on the button ”Create a Configuration file” on the same page.
Now, after performing the above step, on the next page click on “Let’s go” button.
Now, this step is very important. You need to be little careful here. Keep in mind few things and proceed in this way:-- Database Name should be same as that what you have created earlier for your WordPress.
- Username is “root” by default as per MySQL user name.
- The password should be left blank if you haven’t mentioned it at the time of creating your database otherwise type the same one if you have mentioned it earlier
After this simply fill the respective fields on the next page and at last click on the button ”Install WordPress”. Your page will look like as shown in the figure below:
you have successfully installed WordPress on your machine.
Just to make sure that you have done all the steps in a perfect manner, you can login to your account.
