Blogging being a new hype and on running bussiness nowadays, every one trying to find new ways to have online presence or to earn some money via online advertising, even those with some creative brains are chosing the blogging as easiest platform to work online and to contact their customers.
Blogging is getting easier as new ways are coming for userfriendly blogging experience along with new CMS systems for different needs and types of blogging.
This tutorial is about Installing a CMS locally on Windows Xp, process is same for many of the CMS so here I’ll write about how to install wordpress.
Important Note: CMS need a webserver mysql or php to run, locally this function is done by XAMP Lite. Xamp is a localserver easy to setup, easy to run, easy to tweak. It is so easy that you will install you own wordpress or CMS locally in just 10 minutes.
1. Get XAMP Lite (for Windows) and Install it in “C:\” Drive
2. Browse and go to C:\xampplite there double click setup_xampp or setup_xampp.bat
3. Once that is done, double click xampp-control.exe and click on start the Apache and Mysql services.
Note: Certain errors can resist and service may not start. One error may be about mysql or apache is busy. For that simply go to Start > Run > type cmd a command line interface will open, there type iisreset / stop after 3 sec iis service will be stopped, then try to start that service again. (or get more info on this here).
4. Now open your browser (may it be Firefox, I.E, Safari, Opera etc) and go to this address: http://localhost/. From the menu on the left column, choose your preferred language. Although english is default if your PC is on English language by default.
5. Now that the interface displays a language that you can understand, click on phpMyAdmin (on the left column once again)
6. Enter “wordpress” (without quotes) in the “Create New Database” Field, and select utf8_unicode_ci in the drop down box in the next field (as shown in the picture below). Click on Create. The Xampp setup is now complete.
It is needed by wordpress CMS, for certain other CMS or another wordpress installation, you can name it as you like, simply mention it as it is while in installation process.
7. Download Wordpress and unzip it under c:\xampplite\htdocs.
8. Upto this step we have a wordpress folder in c:\xampplite\htdocs. Browse and go to the folder, and you will see a file named wp-config-sample.php. Open it in your text editor and replace the default values by the ones you as follows (below). Save the file with the changes as wp-config.php (under the same folder). Note we have removed the “-sample” in the file name.
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(’DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
define(’DB_USER’, ‘root’); // Your MySQL username
define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password (needs to be empty, just for local install)
define(’DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value.
9. Open browser and go to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php , follow all instructions, and finally you are done with the setup.
After Wordpress’s so awaited and skipped ver2.4 release, 2.5 is ought to come in late march or in first week of April to reckon the realm of new features along with the stable compatibilities for new and improved languages so as the plugins.