Running Wordpress on your desktop

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I noticed from a friend that I am able to run php scripts on desktop alone recently. Therefore, I started to look for those program. It was a big hassle, whereby you need to download the following:-

Apache (or any other IIS)
PHP
MySQL
phpMyAdmin

I tried downloading those stuff one by one and started installing them. I found this website with all the steps by steps installing this WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) and also tried refering to another website. Both have a different approach, but it didn’t work out well, none of it work after configuring them. I started searching again on Google and thank god that I found this Web-Developer Server Suite.

It is so easy, just click and follow the steps to install. One file does it all. Although it is pretty huge with 39.1mb but it is well worth it and much easier. Now I am able to run wordpress on my desktop.

It is nice to be able to run any php scripts on your desktop before uploading them online as you are able to test things and environment refresh much faster. This is where I started to work on my Black N White theme too, it took pretty long time and lots of reading, but it is well worth it.

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