WAMP Server stands for Windows Apache MySQL Php
In this post we will find out How to Setup a WAMP Server on localhost On Windows.

This we are going to do in 3 parts

1. Download WAMP and wordpress .

2. Creating a database for website.

3. Installing wordpress in localhost.

Follow this simple steps to Setup WAMP Server

1. Download the wamp server and install it into the system.

Wamp server

2. Download the latest version of WordPress

WordPress .

3.Now once you have download them you will need to install wamp server. Run the wamp software , it pretty simple steps just click on next and you will be able to configure it ,

Installing wamp

4.You will see a small icon a right side of taskbar, click on it and select localhost (wait for it to turn green)

Run wamp server

Open your favourite browser and type in http://localhost.

6. You will see a page like this under tools menu select phpmyadmin. The url should have change to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/

7.It’s time to create a database for you local website. click on the database tab enter the database name here i will be using wordpress and click create.

8. Open C:\wamp\www and add a new folder here and name it as wordpress. Now you have to extract wordpress.zip file in this wordpress folder.

9. Finally you have to create a configure file to install wordpress , go to http://localhost/wordpress on your browser.

You will see the create a configure file , click on it.

Enter the following details

Database name wordpress

Username root

Password (leave it blank)

For rest two keep it default

After filling this form click submit , if everything went well , it will ask you to run the installation , click run the install .

Next screen will ask you to enter your blog title , login username and password.

Congratulation !! you have install wordpress successfully, now login with your username and password

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How to Setup WAMP Server on localhost and Install WordPress

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