[thelist] wordpress - mysql - no clue

[dwain alford]

Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> dwain alford wrote:
> 
> 
>>how would i install wordpress locally and access mysql server to
>>"practice"? 
> 
> 
> How would you not? :-)   Seriously, I would never install and use
> anything on a public server that I hadn't installed and used on a
> development system.
> 
> As per <http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/>
> 
> 1) install Apache  # make sure you get a binary with PHP and MySQL
> 2) install PHP     #           support already compiled in...
> 3) you say you already have MySQL, so you're set there.
> 4) install WordPress
> 
> As far as DB stuff goes, I would strongly recommend starting with
> the standard MySQL command line client, though there are many GUI
> clients, including ones from MySQL itself.
> 
> HTH,

i have the ability to install a couple of extra hard disks on my system. 
  would it be advisable to install the apache server and mysql server 
software on a separate disk away from the main operating system and 
install a linux server on it as well?

this helps very much, thanks.

dwain



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