WordPress setup

While making TechChase live I have gone through various phase.I will share some DO’s and DON’T regarding that.First thing i did is to setup wordpress locally.

As I want lot of changes to be done in blog I want to setup wordpress locally.

WordPress Local Setup:

1.First and most required to setup wordpress locally is server.I used XamppLite sever very simple and quick installation.You can downlod it here.

2.Extract Xampplite to your C:\

3.Click on C:\xampplite\xampp_start.exe to start server

4.Open browser and type http:\\localhost you can configure your xampp using this

wp_localhost

5.download and Extract WordPress 2.7 to C:\xampplite\htdocs\ folder

6.Using http:\\localhost–>phpAdmin Create empty database for wordpress. Follow following settings.

wp database

7.Under C:\xampplite\htdocs\wordpress folder there is wp-config-sample.php file.

8.Open it in notepad and edit database name, username and password with your wp database details and save file as wp-config.php you can use default username: root and password: blank

wp-config

9.Access http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php in browser

10.This will setup your wordpress locally..Please note randome password generated for admin account

11.Now you can access Admin by http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin

for accessing blog http://localhost/wordpress

12.You can even export files from you live wordpress blog and import it local wordpress

WordPress Setup Don’ts

1.Never delete database…I have spend full 3 days in editing updating my local WP blog..and at end by mistake deleted database…All efforts wasted

wp_databse1

2.Never change general setting (WordPress address (URL)) under admin menu (Settings->General)
Same thing happened with this changed localhost to my site name http://techchase.in and then local site unaccessible..