How to Install Wordpress Locally on Your Mac
Ever wonder how to install Wordpress locally on your Mac? Here's how. *First Step* - Download and install MAMP by dragging and dropping it into your Applications folder. *Second Step* - Open up MAMP, and it should open ups a page on your web browser. It should look like this. This page can be accessed by going to http://localhost:8888/MAMP. *Third Step* - You now have to create a database for your Wordpress installation. Look to the navigation bar in your MAMP homepage, and click on the link that says 'phpMyAdmin'. Where it says 'create new database' put in wordpress (or whatever you want to name it). Image *Fourth Step* - Download the latest version of Wordpress. Then, unzip the file and upload it to your htdocs folder. Image *Fifth Step* - Once you've uploaded the folder, go to http://localhost:8888/wordpress (or whatever your named your folder, if you named your folder 'blog' it would be http://localhost:8888/blog). Image *Sixth Step* - Once you reach the page where you have to input your database information, here is what you should put in. Database name: wordpress (or whatever you've named it) Database user: root Database password: root Image You can then leave the rest as they are. Congratulations, you now have Wordpress installed locally on your computer! Have fun! :smile: In theory, you should be able to change these instructions a little to fit other blog systems, but don't take my word for it. The only other blog system I've tried this with is Textpattern.
This entry was posted on November 04, 2007 at 08:24 PM and is filed under Online,coding,.