How to install wordpress completely locally?

  • Before I start a subscription with a web host provider, I want to download wordpress and play around with the tools. Id prefer to take the time to setup the website on my own, then transfer it over to a web host when its all set. How exactly do I install wordpress on my computer without using any company web hosting? Where exactly would I upload the files to install it? Would I be hosting it myself with some program? If so, what would be the best/safest program to use?

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  • You can install WAMP on your machine, you can google it. With the application, your WordPress will be hosted on your machine and you will need to upload your WordPress files to the local site’s webroot.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    I find the easiest thing to use is Local By Flywheel. After one fairly large download, it installs a one-click solution to setting up multiple local WP sites.

    Please forgive me if I am going slightly off-topic.

    I already have a live website (theunituk.org.uk) which I am closing down having cancelled my contract with my web host. It will cease to be online on the 24th December, 2018.

    I have already done a full backup of files (public.html, etc) together with a backup of the database.

    However, there is around 3.5 Gigabyte of articles stretching back over several years that I would like to keep for posterity and reference and as I have plenty of storage space on my computers, I would like to keep a working offline model of the website.

    It is a few years since I installed the site using WAMP and have pretty much forgotten how I used it. A quick glance at the WAMP website suggest that I will have to alter their script in order to use it to reinstall a ‘working’ site locally.

    I would appreciate it if someone could give me an indication of what alterations I need to make.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    @paderb, If you need support then per the forum guidelines please start your own topic:

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    Thanks.

    Most of people are installing Apache or XAMPP. I have used both of them (in linux of course).

    Thank you for replying.

    As I understand it; WAMP includes Apache, MySQL etc.

    My question was what changes do I need to the installation script to load my existing (live) site onto a local host in order to keep the existing setting.s

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    @paderb, I replied in your other topic. Please don’t create duplicates.

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