In this tutorial, we’ll go through how to get WordPress running on your own PC (running Windows), so you have your own personal WordPress installation to experiment with or learn from. Yes, you could experiment with WordPress on your live website, but if you don’t have a web host or don’t want to play around with your live WordPress blog, then this tutorial is for you.
Firstly, we need to install your own personal web server to run WordPress. WordPress requires a web server, a MySQL database, and the PHP scripting language to run. Installing and configuring these in the past was hard work. Still, there’s now an application called WAMP (Windows – Apache – MySQL – PHP), which installs and configures everything to get your own personal web server up and running.
We now have a functioning WAMP web & database server running on our PC. This server provides practically all the functionality that a paid hosting account offers, but costs nothing and is for your personal use or use on an internal network if you’re teaching WordPress. It would be possible to use WAMP to host your live blog. Still, we’d advise that your live blog should be hosted at a web hosting company rather than allowing people to connect to your own PC running WAMP, as there are security, speed, and availability issues in running your own publicly accessible web server.
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We have our web server now. All we need to do is install WordPress. If you haven’t already started WAMP, start it by double-clicking the WAMP desktop icon. Open ‘My Computer’ or Windows Explorer and navigate to C:/WAMP/WWW and then create a new folder in the WWW folder called wordpress.
We then need to download WordPress, so go to the WordPress website and download the latest version of WordPress. Once it’s downloaded, extract/unzip the installation file and copy the contents of its ‘WordPress folder to c:/wamp/www/wordpress.
If you’ve downloaded WordPress and successfully copied the WordPress files into the correct folder, you can open a browser and go to http://localhost/wordpress – you should see a WordPress page asking you to create a configuration file. So go ahead and click ‘create a configuration file.’
