Your blog’s welcome screen should appear, using the WordPress default theme and settings. After it’s complete, test it like before, but this time use the local WordPress URL: localhost/wordpress. Click “Next” to proceed with Bitnami’s WordPress installation. For the same reason of not dealing with a final and presentable site, deselect “Launch wordpress in the cloud with Bitnami.”ħ. At the “Installation type” tab, select “Development Settings” instead of “Production Settings”, since you’re setting up a development environment/playground and not a production-ready site.Ħ. Since everything will take place locally, you don’t need “to receive notifications about your site’s status.” You can skip the “Configure SMTP Settings” tab and mail support for now.ĥ. This will prove useful in keeping MySQL find-and-replace actions to a minimum when you move your site to a remote host.Ĥ. If you aim to turn this into an actual site hosted on a real server and accessible by others, we recommend you enter the name you intend to use and not a temporary one. The installer will also provide you with an option to change the pre-selected (and too generic) Blog name. Leave the MySQL Password box empty if you followed along up to now = the default XAMPP password is blank.ģ. Enter the account details you wish to use to log in to your soon-to-be local WordPress installation. Click Next, leaving the default installation folder as it is, pausing at the “Create Admin account” screen. Open a terminal and change to the directory where you downloaded the two files to something like: Since we’re at the downloading stage, also visit Bitnami’s site and download its latest WordPress installer for Linux.ģ. Visit the ApacheFriends site and download the latest “XAMPP for Linux” installer.Ģ. We’ll follow the easy route of using the XAMPP installer by ApacheFriends, which turns the installation of Apache, MariaDB, PHP into a next-next-next affair.ġ. If all you want to do is experiment and familiarize yourself with the CMS or want to start developing plugins/themes for WordPress, here is how you can set up everything needed with XAMPP, plus WordPress itself on your Linux computer, to learn, develop or fool around with it, without having to pay a single cent. While you can pay a hosting company to keep your WordPress site on their servers, that’s the best choice only for production-ready sites. WordPress has developed into the go-to CMS for the vast majority of sites on the Internet.

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