Comments on: Setting Up WordPress On Your PC Using XAMPP

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:06:34 +0000

Minimouse » Sounds good. I’ll be checking that out. Thanks.

By: Minimouse

Minimouse — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:36:42 +0000

ServerPress.com’s DesktopServer is xampplite also, but includes a control panel just for creating and copying multiple WordPress localhost sites with their own fake domain names in a couple of clicks.

By: caroline

caroline — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:16:12 +0000

I have downloaded it to my pc, its working good, also I suggested to my friends thanks for sharing the useful post!!

By: Anja

Anja — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:47:45 +0000

XAMPP is new to my ear. I’m not yet using WordPress, but I want to have it on my PC. I will try to download this tonight, I hope I can do this right.
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By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:16:48 +0000

i see “WordPress requires that your web server is running PHP. Your server does not have PHP installed, or PHP is turned off.” when i run the install file. Any help??

By: Rajneesh Singh

Rajneesh Singh — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:15:06 +0000

Hi
Its great and simple tutorial but i facing a problem when try to install.php it shows error
Error: PHP is not running
WordPress requires that your web server is running PHP. Your server does not have PHP installed, or PHP is turned off.
or some codes m facing this problem from last two days plz help me or my file location path is
file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
Plz help me.

Thanks

By: david

david — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:21:05 +0000

Good stuff BUT after its all set up when I click the link in Dashboard to see the site I get Index of/wordpress… just a list of files – php files eg wp-activate.php etc- can’t see the actual site.

By: stephan

stephan — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:03:09 +0000

// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
// -> Looks good: define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’);

/** MySQL database username */
// -> Looks good: define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’);

/** MySQL database password */
/*** -> -> DOESN’T look good: define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, _”); < - <- ***/

/** MySQL hostname */
// -> Looks good: define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

now im pretty sure i got this right but still get
Error establishing a database connection
any idea?

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:21:25 +0000

When I go to http://127.0.0.1/ all I get is a blank page with the words “It Works”. There is no set up page to create the database or no PHPMyAdmin. I have tried to follow several tutorials to no avail. Why am I doing wrong?

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 19 May 2011 12:32:07 +0000

Chris » Thanks Chris.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:52:15 +0000

That was a really well written guide: I’m new to all this, and it worked perfectly – thanks a lot.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:40:00 +0000

trying to set up wordpress with easy PHP
tried many times will not install says PHP is not running …. canot get to start page

have set up mysql and appache is running
dbase links like in the instructions after a week I am really frustrated
any hints ???

tahnks in advance …. Dave

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 04:34:38 +0000

@Amit Sharma: Thanks for stoppin’ by Amit. Nice theme you have over at your blog.

By: Amit Sharma

Amit Sharma — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:42:41 +0000

I use xampp and do everything like customizing themes and installing plugins putting some posts to see how it looks and then only I put it on the server. Its recommended if you don’t want to mess up something which whole world sees.
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By: Beline

Beline — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:59:51 +0000

Thx for your quick answer !
But I found out the problem : it was the “closering tag” (I don’t know the real name for that : ?>) that was forgotten and I didn’t select the good UTF 8 in creating my database “wordpress”.
It function very well now