2. What You Need
Xampp
for Windows
WordPress
Browser
(Mozilla/Chrome would be good)
3. What is Xampp?
A Xampp (Apache, MySQL, PHP and …) bundle
A suite of the following software
Apache
MySQL
PHP
phpMyAdmin
Download from
http://apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
4. What is WordPress?
A blog publishing system programmed in
PHP
Uses MySQL as the backend (database)
A free software to set up blogs
Download from
http://wordpress.org/download/
5. How To Do
Install Xampp
Create a database in MySQL with PhpMyAdmin
Install WordPress Software
Set up your blog
6. Step 1: Install Xampp
Double Click xampp-win32-?.?.?-installer.exe
to launch the installer
19. Step 2: Create a
database
Launch PhpMyAdmin
Create a database named “wordpress_db”
Create a user named “wordpress”
Grant all privileges to the user “wordpress” on
the database “wordpress_db”
28. Step 3: Install WordPress
Extract WordPress files to the “htdocs” folder in
Xampp installation folder
Rename “wp-config-sample.php” to
“wp-config.php”
Open “wp-config.php” and fill in the database
information
Run “install.php” from the Web Browser to install
WordPress Software
33. Fill in the database information
Enter ‘wordpress_db’ for DB_NAME and DB_USER
Enter the password for DB_PASSWORD
which you provided while creating the user and also the hostname