July 14, 2010

Once you’ve installed XAMPP, download Wordpress and unzip it into your xampp/htdocs folder. You’ll first need to create a database, which you can do by visiting the /phpmyadmin/ on your localhost, typing in the database name and pressing ‘Create’. Now go to /wordpress/, click the buttons and fill out the form. Type in 'root' for the database username and leave the password blank. Select any password you want for the administrator account. You can now log in with this administrator password and log into the Wordpress dashboard. ...

I’ve been going around setting up open source software a fair bit recently. To minimise the pain of explaining it, I’m putting together a short videos that explain the process. Here’s the first, on XAMPP, which is a starting point for most open source applications. It bundles Apache (web server), MySQL (database), Perl and PHP. To install it, search and download “XAMPP for Windows”, and press enter for every question. Then install your application under C:\xampp\htdocs. That’s it. ...