Installing on Windows 8.1 Local Host

  • Hi – and thanks in advance for any advice you might offer –

    I’m trying to install WordPress on a new Dell 8700 running Windows 8.1. I followed the steps noted in the Codex here, going to the Microsoft site and using the Web Platform installer. It fully downloaded and installed 17 of the 18 items but is stuck on installing MySQL Windows 5.1. There is no way to tell how far along in the install it is.

    The Prerequisites tab has been completed, and it is at the Install tab. Configure and Finish remain. Behind the active Web Platform Installer 5.0 window is another WordPress Web Platform Installer window.It shows 2 items to be installed and is not accessible as the other window is the active one.

    Help, please!?!

    and thanks.

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  • Thread Starter YourVideoSCV

    (@yourvideoscv)

    I should have noted that the Install Progress bar does remain active, sliding it’s green bar left to right.

    have you considered installing WordPress on wamp server?
    Here is a link to a tutorial which will help you to get WordPress running on windows, running on wamp.

    Thread Starter YourVideoSCV

    (@yourvideoscv)

    I was fortunate to meet with an IT guy at a luncheon today and find out why nobody has responded here: quite simply, it is insane to try to run WordPress on a Windows machine. I’ll be doing this project on my MacBook Pro and all the happier for it.

    Just to clarify, are you planning on running the WP site “live” from your Mac or do you just want to install WP on a local computer (Mac or Win) to develop sites offline, test plugins, themes, etc.

    If it is the latter, then as @nikschavan mentioned, just use on of the many AMP stacks (Apache, MySQL, PHP) for Windows (he mentions WAMPServer, but there is also XAMPP (very popular) and my fave, Uniform Server. I have literally 100s of WP installs on my Win 7 PC with US and about 15 on my Win 8.1 machine.

    For the Mac, I use the popular MAMP local web server program. Your fave search will get you links to these.

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