Before installing wordpress on a PC, let me show you about the importance of installing wordpress in it. For years, WordPress can be described as one of the most popular blogging platform. It’s really user friendly and has a lot of amazing features, including thousands plugins created by many people around the world. Many hosting provider helps their customer by giving auto-installation of wordpress, mostly included in fantastico in their Cpanel. Follow the instruction in your Cpanel-fantastico, and your wordpress will be ready to use in minutes.

Can you use your wordpress offline? In this case, the answer is NO. You must fully connect to the internet. What should I do if I want to make some preview, experiment, or editing my wordpress template before launch itu worldwide?  Well, the easiest way is by installing wordpress in your local PC/Laptop. How?

Let’s make it clear. Installing wordpress in your local PC (localhost) is a bit different. But, after finishing the installation, you can do whatever you want in your wordpress without connect to the internet. You can upload it to your hosting later, when you feel that your experiment, editing, etc finished.

Ok, now let’s start the step by step installation of wordpress in your local PC.

1. Download the latest XAMMP software (in this case, I use XAMMP 1.6.8) from http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html. Don’t worry about the version, because I found that it always have similar installation method.

2. Download the latest WordPress software (in this case, I use WordPress 2.6.3) from http://wordpress.org/download/

3. Double click your XAMPP installation file you’ve just download.

4. Choose the language (I prefer English because its universal, right ).

5.The welcome window opened. Click “Next”.

6. Choose destination folder. For example, I installed it in c:\xammp.

7. Choose the install option. I recommend to uncheck all of the Service Section, because it will make the service run all the time whether you use it or not.

8. Wait for the installation progress.

9. Installing XAMMP completed. Click Finish.

10. Click Yes to open the XAMMP for the first time.

11. Check the Svc Apache and Svc MySQL modules. Click OK for both.

12. Restart your computer to make sure that you make the correct XAMMP installation.

13. Open xampp-control.exe, or double click the XAMMP shotcut icon in your dekstop.

14. Activate Apache and MySQL by click the Start Button next to each module.

15. Open your browser, type http://localhost/ in the address bar. You’ll see the opening XAMMP windows asking for your language. Choose your preferred language.

16. You’ll see the congratulations windows regarding your success of installing XAMMP.

17. Click phpMyAdmin link in the left sidebar (in the Tools Section).

18. Create a new database in a blank column. Fill it with your own word, or for this example I name it with “wordpress“.

19. Extract the Zipped file of WordPress you’ve download before to c:\xampplite\htdocs.

20. Open the wordpress folder. Rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php

21. Open wp-config.php with your text editor (I prefer use notepad). Find and replace the text inside, just like this :

<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress‘);    // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root‘);     // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);    // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

Don’t forget to clear the password for your easier use.

22. Type http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php in your browser’s address bar. Fill your blog title and email. Click “Install WordPress”.

23. You’ll get your auto-generated random password. Don’t forget to change your given password when you log in to your wordpress account for the first time.

24. Finish! Your admin section located in http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin, while your wordpress file folder in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress.

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