Hello again, today in this article I am going to tell you how to install WordPress and WordPress MU on your own machine. Well to create a local server on your machine so that you can throughly test your site download and install Xampp For Windows installer (if you haven’t done it yet) to create local sever on Windows. After downloading XAMPP run the installer. When it comes to the installation options page, select Install Apache and MySQL as a service.

After installing Xampp on your machine go to Start -> Program -> Apache Friends -> XAMPP -> XAMPP Control Panel. Press the Start button beside Apache and MySQL. ( After starting Apache and MySQL your local server will start running.)

Now open your Mozilla Firefox ( download it if you haven’t downloaded it yet.) and type http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ in your adress bar, now you have to create two database one for WordPress standard edition and second for WordPress MU. If you just wanna learn WordPress standard edition (not MU) then just create one datbase, to create a database in the “Create New Database” field, enter a name for your database. Press Create.

Now after creating database you have to configure your virtual (For MU, if just wanna install standard WordPress then leave it).

Go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc and open the file “hosts” with notepad and add – 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain

in last line.  After editing your hosts file go to C:\xampp\htdocs and extratct WordPress (or WordPress MU) folder there. Now if you are installing WordPress standard edtion (not Mu) then just visit http://localhost/wordpress/ ( for MU installers visit – http://localhost.localdomain/wordpress-mu), There you should see a WordPress installation page (MU users select subdirectories not sub domains. This will save you plenty of trouble later on.) Now enter the database info you created -

1. Database name – enter the name of the database you have created.
2. Database user – type “root” in that field.
3. Password – just leave it blank, please don’t enter anything in that field.
4. Databse Host – localhost
5. Table prefix – wp_

Now a sucess page will come, copy your password from that page, login and edit your profile and click on save button, voila you have sucessfuly installed WordPress! Now in next post we will start using WordPress.