[thelist] wordpress - mysql - no clue
Christian Heilmann
codepo8 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 08:48:59 CDT 2005
On 9/23/05, Hassan Schroeder <hassan at webtuitive.com> 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.
There is also http://www.apachefriends.org/ which offers XAMPP, a
prepacked apache/mysql/php distro. Unzipping, installing and you will
have your wordpress running in a matter of minutes.
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