Hello friends,
once again here i am with new common problem related to installation of wordpress in mac OSx.
if you are thinking to setup a new wordpress blog and want to run at localhost then you should install wordpress at local and then modify it before it goes live.
Well lets start how to Setup a new copy of Wordpress 4.0 on Mac OSx 10.7.4 (in any version).
To do so you have to Download only 2 things
1. Xampp Server for Mac OSx (Click here to go to download page)
2. Wordpress latest Zip (Click here to go to download page)
once again here i am with new common problem related to installation of wordpress in mac OSx.
if you are thinking to setup a new wordpress blog and want to run at localhost then you should install wordpress at local and then modify it before it goes live.
Well lets start how to Setup a new copy of Wordpress 4.0 on Mac OSx 10.7.4 (in any version).
To do so you have to Download only 2 things
1. Xampp Server for Mac OSx (Click here to go to download page)
2. Wordpress latest Zip (Click here to go to download page)
- After complete the download you will get something like xampp bla bla bla.dmg file
- Just double click on it.
- This will start installation of xampp in your macbook.
- When installation complete them run the program.
- You will see 3 option like start My SQL, Start PFTP bla bla and start Apache server. You have to choose start all.
- After start all these 3 things you will notice Green lights in xampp.
- Now open browser and Type "localhost"
- xampp should run now. now Click on "phpmyadmin"
- Here you will see some option like "create new database", just fill the name for your database and click on create new database, you will see a green right sign as you successfully create a database.
- Now you have database and now you have to setup your wordpress. To do so first extract your wordpress files by double click on zip file downloaded in Mac OSx.
- This will extract a folder name with "wordpress"
- Now copy this Folder and paste it here (Go to application > xampp > htdocs > paste here)
- You can change this folder name according to your website name or leave it as it.
- Now open this folder and Search a file called "wp-config-sample.php".
- open this php file and search in this file something like "DB_database name you database name here", DB_user Your username here and something like this.
- Now replace "database name here" with your database name that you created in phpmyadmin.
- replace username with "root"
- And Delete the "Your password here" and leave it blank like "",
- Now save this php file with renaming it "wp-config.php"
- Done ....You are almost done now.
- now go to browser and type "localhost/your wordpress folder name" and hit entert.
- You should see famous 5 minute installation webpage of wordpress.
- Now fill all the requirements and Run your first wordpress website at your local server.