Installing WordPress on Windows

#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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