Installing Wordpress Locally with XAMPP

Installing Wordpress LocallyCreating a local virtual server with XAMPP

Joshua Rapp; User Experience Designer / Wordpress Developer



Installing XAMPP Directory Structure

C:/ C:/xampp

C:/xampp/htdocs


Start up XAMPP and visit PHPMyAdmin in your browser


Create a New MySQL DB with a utf_general_ci collation


Click on the privileges tab and add a new user


Create your DB user credentials (setup host as localhost)


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


Visit Wordpress.org and download the latest version


Directory Structure

C:/ C:/xampp

C:/xampp/htdocs

C:/xampp/htdocs/directory


Locate the wp-config-sample.php file

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


Congratulations on installing wordpress on your machine

Installing Wordpress Locally with XAMPP

Self Improvement

new user

xampp c

xampphtdocs c

db user credentials

xampp directory structure

new mysql db

privileges tab

local virtual server