GUIDE FOR INSTALLATION OF WORDPRESS ON WINDOWS PC

GUIDE FOR INSTALLATION OF WORDPRESS ON WINDOWS PC

Introduction:

Here you'll find a comprehensive step by step guide on how to install Wordpress on your windows PC.

Step1.Downloading Xampp

• Begin by downloading the latest version of Xampp from the Official Website.https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
• Choose the version compatible with your windows PC and click on the download button.
• Start the download

Step2:Installing Xampp

Once you've downloaded,go to your Xampp folder and run the installer .

Choose the components you want to install(Apache,Mysql,Php)

• Apache is responsible for serving web pages to users when they visit a website. Apache is used to host the WordPress files and serve them to your web browser when you access your local WordPress site.
• PHP interacts with both the Apache web server and the MySQL database.
• In the setup process, you create a MySQL database where WordPress will store its data. WordPress interacts with the MySQL database to retrieve and manipulate data as needed.

Step3:Start Apache and Mysql

After the installation,Open the Xampp Control Panel.

Start Apache and Mysql by clicking the start button next to each of them.

Step4:Download Wordpress

Go to the official Wordpress website download:https://wordpress.org/download/

Begin the download and have your file as a zip file format

Step5:Extract Wordpress Files.

• Navigate to the directory where XAMPP is installed on your PC. By default, it's usually installed in the "C:\xampp" directory.
• Inside the XAMPP directory, locate the "htdocs" folder. This is where you'll place your WordPress files.
• Extract the contents of the WordPress zip file you downloaded earlier into the "htdocs" folder. You can create a new folder for your WordPress site if you prefer.

Step6:Create a Mysql Database

Open your web browser and navigate to: http://localhost/phpmyadmin/.

• In the phpMyAdmin interface, click on the "Databases" tab.
• Create a new database name it :wordpress

Step7:Setup Wordpress

• Open your web browser and go to http://localhost/your-wordpress
• Select your language and click Continue.
• On the next screen, WordPress will inform you that it needs a database name, username, password, database host, and table prefix. You'll need to enter this information:-
• Database Name: Enter the name of the database you created earlier.
• Click "Submit" and then click "Run the installation".
• Username: Enter "root" (the default username for MySQL in XAMPP).
• Password: Leave this field blank (the default password for MySQL in XAMPP is blank).
• Database Host: Enter "localhost".
• Table Prefix: You can leave this as the default wp_

Step8:Finish Wordpress Installation

Enter your username, password i.e. the credentials you used

Click 'install Wordpress' button.

Once the installation is complete you can now log in to your wordpress dashboard using the credentials you used before.To access the admin dashboard, go to localhost/wordpress/phpmyadmin/ and log in with your credentials.