installing wordpress locally with xampp

Installing Wordpress LocallyCreating a local virtual server with XAMPP

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Installing XAMPP Directory Structure

C:/ C:/xampp

C:/xampp/htdocs

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Start up XAMPP and visit PHPMyAdmin in your browser

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Create a New MySQL DB with a utf_general_ci collation

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Click on the privileges tab and add a new user

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Create your DB user credentials (setup host as localhost)

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Check all privileges for yourself as a DB user and ADD User

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Visit Wordpress.org and download the latest version

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Directory Structure

C:/ C:/xampp

C:/xampp/htdocs

C:/xampp/htdocs/directory

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Locate the wp-config-sample.php file

Change the data needed and save as wp-config.php

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Congratulations on installing wordpress on your machine