December 30th, 2007

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Tags: Blogging, HOW-TO, install, LinkyLoo, local, wamp, WordPress

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Len says:

12/30/2007 at 1:40 pm

This is something I have been doing for quite some time except I use XAMPP. It’s great for not only maintaining a backup but for experimentation purposes as well. I’ll intentionally break things just to see how to fix them. All WordPress users should do this.
Arnold (4 comments.) says:

12/30/2007 at 2:52 pm

This is just what I have been waiting for. I have followed every step mentioned in this part to the letter and now I cannot wait for part 2. Thank you.
db (2 comments.) says:

12/30/2007 at 3:05 pm

I’ve been using something similiar on my mac for a while now and it’s great! Nice to be able to make changes local and not have to worry about breaking a live site.

I didn’t know there was one for Windows. I’ll have to add that to my VM. Thanks!
Power (6 comments.) says:

12/30/2007 at 3:31 pm

Great work Actually i doing something similar with ubuntu.
Jeffro2pt0 (164 comments.) says:

12/30/2007 at 3:32 pm

@Len I realize going in that there are other webserver packages that do the same thing. For example, PHPTriad which used to be EasyPHP was one of those programs I used before WampServer.

@Arnold Glad to see the article worked out for you.
Alex says:

12/30/2007 at 3:57 pm

There is a great comparison of WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) packages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_WAMPs
Matt (1 comments.) says:

12/30/2007 at 4:08 pm

Nice howto for the not so technical savvy people! I myself installed apache, sql and php on my linux distro seperatly instead of the nice packages they have for windows
bruce (2 comments.) says:

12/30/2007 at 4:12 pm

Cool article – I’ve been meaning to do this in January to avoid redesigns on the fly. Looking forward to part!
kite says:

12/30/2007 at 4:26 pm

This is just what I needed; I’ve wanted to do this for a long time, but could never find a decent walkthrough geared towards someone not-so-knowledgeable. Now all I need is for my flipping bandwidth limit to reset so I can download this, and I can get going!
Jonathan Dobres (5 comments.) says:

12/30/2007 at 4:40 pm

For Mac OS X, MAMP accomplishes the same thing. Turns what was once a complicated and painful configuration procedure into a nearly one-step installation (though you may have to fiddle with OS X’s built-in web server settings to prevent conflicts). It even supports URL rewriting by default. Very handy.
MASA says:

12/30/2007 at 5:28 pm

Like len, I’ve been doing this for a long time as well. All you really need to do is install XAMPP. It’s not that hard. Just setup a mysql account (it walks you through it), and then install wordpress.
Carson (46 comments.) says:

12/30/2007 at 5:32 pm

I’ve been using WAMPServer for several months. Found instructions and download here. Your instructions seem to be more comprehensive though. I used XAMP before but like WAMP better.
danithew (1 comments.) says:

12/30/2007 at 11:20 pm

I’d like to do this on my Macbook … I see some of the commenters are saying they have achieved this. The MAMP option looks like it requires purchasing the program. Is there a free and easy way to do it?
MASA says:

12/31/2007 at 12:44 am

@danithew:

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html
db (2 comments.) says:

12/31/2007 at 12:48 am

I’d like to do this on my Macbook … I see some of the commenters are saying they have achieved this. The MAMP option looks like it requires purchasing the program. Is there a free and easy way to do it?

MAMP is free. The Pro version is not. Follow the link above and choose the download from the download link on the right.
Krishna says:

12/31/2007 at 12:49 am

Wouldn’t it be great if i can sync the local installation with the actual on the webserver?
Jeffro2pt0 (164 comments.) says:

12/31/2007 at 2:58 am

That would almost be Nirvana Krishna. What an awesome way it would be to manage things. You wouldn’t have to constantly update the files on the local machine and mess with the database.
tabrez (8 comments.) says:

12/31/2007 at 5:17 am

I too use XAMPP and I have to do the sync between my actual blog and local copy manually. Copying the database is especially painful to do manually. Any Perl scripts to make it automated?
Israel (1 comments.) says:

12/31/2007 at 1:37 pm

Hey MASA,
Thanks for the link, it took me about 10 minutes to install.
This is something I really needed for development purposes on my new MAC .
Awesome.
Chad (3 comments.) says:

12/31/2007 at 6:25 pm

Too cool for school. I can’t wait to start building locally with these tools. I recently tried a virtual server from Joomla and it rocks. This will round out my site building tools with WordPress. Thanks a million!
Diseño Web (8 comments.) says:

12/31/2007 at 9:56 pm

I Recommend for the newbies try EasyPHP, one problem is that some WP versions dont work the admin login. Well… EasyPHP 1.8 and WP 2+ versions Works nice at all.

Nice year for all people.
Mosey says:

1/1/2008 at 1:35 am

For the ultimate newbie – I would suggest AppServ. I still am a newbie, especially when it comes to databases and such, and whilst I did try e.g. WAMP and some other more sophisticated local-server software, I found they were a bit more powerful than what I needed just to test WordPress. AppServ runs *extremely* unobtrusively in the background and worked straight from installation.
bubazoo (213 comments.) says:

1/1/2008 at 5:47 am

newbies? what??? you mean…every joe Schmo doesn’t have their own website, and blog, by now? Might as well not even consider yourself a computer geek, if you don’t have at LEAST 4 or 5 computers in your house running over a hardware router. I’ve been running a home server for test blog purposes for years, ya mean everyone doesn’t do this? hehehehe

I mean gosh, the way I get treated in the wordpess forums, they treat me like I’m some stupid retard or something, like I’m the only one who doesn’t have multiple computers running in their home, or too stupid to not be running my IP thru proxy servers like they do in chat rooms. I no longer feel so stupid in the wordpress community now reading this article I mean gosh, they treat you like if you don’t know how to setup linux from scratch your an idiot or something…
larry says:

1/1/2008 at 6:17 pm

I installed wamp2 on my Xp machine a week ago and it rocks!…but…the enevitable bug for me anyway is that everytime I open a page for testing/editing, it tries to dial out.
Working on finding the solution as we speak.
Jeffro2pt0 (164 comments.) says:

1/1/2008 at 7:03 pm

Actually Larry, I know exactly what the problem is and I’ll be covering that in Part 2.
Max (2 comments.) says:

1/1/2008 at 8:27 pm

Thanks for the useful tip. Can’t wait for part 2
Jeffro2pt0 (164 comments.) says:

1/1/2008 at 8:41 pm

Glad you enjoyed it Max, I’m writing up Part 2 as I publish this comment
marcus (1 comments.) says:

1/2/2008 at 2:14 pm

I use xampplite. It’s enough for me.
Chip (1 comments.) says:

1/2/2008 at 8:19 pm

This is an overly (overtly) simplistic part 1 of 2 part series. FYI, you probably want ApacheFriends (.org) instead of WAMPSERVER. I’ve installed just about every ?AMPP? distro out there, and ApacheFriends has a long-standing tradition of providing very well packaged, stable and integrated services … can’t say nearly as much for WAMPSERVER. Any dummy can download an AMPP package and install it … refinement is key.
zigmat (1 comments.) says:

1/3/2008 at 6:34 am

XAMMP Only! I was trying WAMPP, but it’s really s*x…
khai (1 comments.) says:

1/3/2008 at 9:22 am

if you are malaysian, or u know bahasa Melaysia, i make some tutorial before about install wordpress locally…

http://www.khai.scukz.com/2007.....indows-xp/
Syahid A. (1 comments.) says:

1/4/2008 at 3:50 am

And if you don’t want to use WAMP, you can always be adventurous by following my Apache Installation Guide on Local here. Nice writeup here by the way.
Jeffro2pt0 (164 comments.) says:

1/17/2008 at 5:45 pm

I’ve discovered that simply restarting the services through WampServer is not enough to make the PHP.ini files to go into effect. Instead, you will need to completely reboot your machine after you make the changes. I’ve edited the article to reflect the change.
Kathy Osborne says:

4/21/2008 at 3:38 pm

I use MAMP (the mac version) but was wondering what exactly I need to do to transfer all the files to my server.once I have my site designed and ready to go?
Steph says:

4/28/2008 at 10:41 pm

Thank you! I couldn’t figure out why my new install of Wampserver couldn’t start apache. I had Skype open! Timely info, thanks.
Terry Lee says:

5/22/2008 at 3:56 pm

Thank you so much for this tutorial and the configuration recommendations specific to WordPress. It was a huge help to me.
Kessin (2 comments.) says:

11/9/2008 at 1:34 pm

Can’t find php.ini file in WAMP 5. Any ideas?
Kessin (2 comments.) says:

11/9/2008 at 2:09 pm

Sorry, I didn’t read the article well enough. I’ve figured it out now =)
Brett (1 comments.) says:

3/1/2009 at 10:20 am

XAMMP Only! I did tried WAMPP, but it’s really sucks…
OfficeSupplyGeek (1 comments.) says:

9/10/2009 at 8:19 pm

I used this tutorial and the second part of it to help me change my blog to a new theme, thanks for writing this up, it was very helpful!

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