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WordPress Local WordPress Development Local WordPress Development Installing WordPress Locally

eliypark
eliypark
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Posted by eliypark
eliypark
4,241 Points

Installing WordPress locally with XAMPP on PC.

I need information on how to set up WordPress locally using XAMPP. The course only uses MAMP to show.

Where can I find the MySQL section for XAMPP? How do I configure the location of my site folder so that it isn't inside of htdocs, but somewhere I want to put the folder in (such as desktop or any other drives I might have.)?

Thank you!

2 Answers

LaVaughn Haynes
LaVaughn Haynes
12,397 Points
LaVaughn Haynes
LaVaughn Haynes
12,397 Points

"You can change Apaches httpd.conf by clicking (in xampp control panel) apache/conf/httpd.conf and adjust the entries for DocumentRoot and the corresponding Directory entry. Just Ctrl+F for "htdocs" and change the entries to your new path."

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18902887/how-to-configuring-a-xampp-web-server-for-diffrent-root-directory

I use Bitnami ( https://bitnami.com/stack/wordpress ) so mine looks like this:

# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
#
DocumentRoot "C:/BitNami/wordpress-4.2.2-0/apache2/htdocs"
<Directory "C:/BitNami/wordpress-4.2.2-0/apache2/htdocs">
eliypark
eliypark
4,241 Points
eliypark
eliypark
4,241 Points

Thanks, Lavaughn Haynes

I got the folder adjusted. But I still don't know how to set up mySQL from XAMPP. Do you happen to know a link relating to it?

eliypark
eliypark
4,241 Points
eliypark
eliypark
4,241 Points

Feeling mighty stupid right now - I found it. Thank you so much~!!!

LaVaughn Haynes
LaVaughn Haynes
12,397 Points
LaVaughn Haynes
LaVaughn Haynes
12,397 Points

Hey, we are all learning :)

I was installing it on my PC to check to see where it is on PC. I used XAMPP on a Mac before but I think the interface is different. I'm glad you found it though.