What you need to know about Wordpress....

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In this tutorial we'll go through how to get Wordpress running on your own PC (running Windows)
so you have your own personal Wordpress installation to experiment with or learn from. Yes you
could experiment with Wordpress on your live website but if you don't have a web host or don't
want to play around with your live Wordpress blog then this tutorial is for you.
Firstly we need to install your own personal web server to run Wordpress. Wordpress requires a
web server, a MySQL database and the PHP scripting language to run. Installing and configuring
these in the past was hard work but there's now an application called WAMP (Windows - Apache -
MySQL - PHP) which installs and configures everything to get your own personal web server up
and running.
Normally you'd pay a web host to host your website or blog and they'd provide the web server,
database server and scripting but we're going to install our own personal web server so we can do
anything we like in our own personal Wordpress test lab at zero cost.
Visit the WAMP site and download the WAMP Server. Once the file has downloaded double-click
it to install the WAMP software.
Once the install begins accept the license agreement and all the default installation options and
select to create a desktop icon at the end of the installation.
Once installed and running you'll have a WAMP icon down in the system tray in the bottom right-
hand corner of your screen (it looks like a semi-circle)click the WAMP icon down in the system tray
and select phpMyAdmin - if the phpMyAdmin page displays then this tells us that the webserver is
running and the php script can connect to our MySQL database so you're up and running.
We now have a functioning WAMP web & database server running on our PC. This server
provides practically all the functionality that a paid hosting account offers but costs nothing and is
for your personal use or use on an internal network if you're teaching Wordpress. It would be
possible to use WAMP to host your live blog but we'd advise that it's much better for your live blog
to be hosted at a web hosting company rather than allowing people to connect to your own PC
running WAMP as there are security, speed and availability issues in running your own publicly
accessible web server.
We have our web server now all we need to do is install Wordpress. If you haven't already started
WAMP start it by double-clicking the WAMP desktop icon. Open 'My Computer' or Windows
Explorer and navigate to C:/WAMP/WWW and then create a new folder in the WWW folder called
wordpress.

2. We then need to download Wordpress so go to the Wordpress web site and download the latest
version of Wordpress. Once it's downloaded extract/unzip the installation file and copy the
contents of its 'wordpress' folder to c:/wamp/www/wordpress.
If you've downloaded Wordpress and successfully copied the Wordpress files into the correct
folder you can open a browser and go to http://localhost/wordpress - you should see a Wordpress
page asking you to create a configuration file. So go ahead and click 'create a configuration file'.
Wordpress then asks for the database hostname, username and password to connect to your
MySQL server. Wordpress is a dynamic content management system so anything you post in
Wordpress is stored in a MySQL database so when a visitor visits your blog or you edit a post
Wordpress dynamically pulls this information from the database displays it. In order to do this we
need to create a blank database with a username and password so Wordpress can connect to it.
Wordpress will do all the hard work of populate this database with all the correct tables but we
have to manually create the database and username and password before Wordpress can do this.
Click the WAMP icon in the lower right hand corner of your screen and select phpMyAdmin.
phpMyAdmin should now load in your browser so then in the 'create new database' box enter
wordpress_db and click 'create'.
Now we need to add a user to the database. In phpMyAdmin click the 'Privileges' tab then click
'Add a new User'. In the 'user name' box enter wordpress_user (or a username of your choice)
and enter a password in the 'password' and 're-type' boxes. Ensure that under 'database for user'
the option 'Grant all privileges on database "wordpress_db"' is selected and then click 'Go' down at
the bottom right.
Now if we go back to the Wordpress installation screen we can enter the database name,
username and password we just created using phpMyAdmin. The database host should be
localhost and we'll leave the table prefix as wp_.
Now click 'submit' and Wordpress should say that it can now communicate with the database.
Click the 'run the install' button. We then can fill in the options for site title, username and
password - this username and password is the Wordpress username and password that you'd like
to use to administer your Wordpress blog so you can make up your own username and password
which can (and should!) be different from the database username and password we created
earlier.
Click 'install Wordpress' and Wordpress should then say you've successfully installed it and if you
click the login button and enter your Wordpress username and password you're up and running!
Just remember to make sure your WAMP server is running first otherwise you won't be able
connect.
To login into your Wordpress installation and makes changes or postings in future just go to
http://localhost/wordpress/wp-login.php and to view your blog just go to the same URL but without
the wp-login.phh

3. Steve blogs about installing and setting up Wordpress blogs as well as providing Wordpress
installation services.
You can catch more of his articles and video tutorials at http://www.blogsetuplab.com
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