You might need to install Xampp or Wamp on your computer first. Then setup a Virtual Host on your computer which will make sure your when you type your website address, it will point it to the local installation of your computer. Download XAMPP: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html Setting up Virtual Host: http://ddmboss.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/how-to-set-up-virtual-hosts-using-xampp/ Hope that helps
How to make a copy of a local wordpress build in MAMP?
I used Search-Replace-DB from https://github.com/interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB to replace domain urls for the site I needed to develop. I also had trouble with the WP Sharely plugin which was enabled sitewide – it was looking for an activation file on a NAS box in the cloud somewhere. Once I disabled sitewide plugins manually in the DB, I … Read more
Well, you need a database. That seems like the biggest hurdle you’d face without any sort of administrative control over the server. Can you request a MySql database from the school Tech Dept? If you can get that, and you can run PHP scripts, it seems like you’d have little issue setting up a wordpress … Read more
Move style.css out of /css and into the Theme’s root folder.
Generally you should only configure WP for localhost if you have physical possession of the computer/server. You cannot access localhost of a remote computer. Well there are tricks that this is beyond the scope of this discussion. Edited to add To install WP on localhost, after installing the WP files, go to: http://localhost/ or if … Read more
All scripts and style links return 404 on a local virtualhost
Why I obtain a white page when I import a backup of an old WP blog on my local web server? [duplicate]
Turns out this was an issue with my current Apache install. After uninstalling an reinstalling the latest version of Apache, everything worked as expected.
First thing that comes to mind, is that you haven’t set up an actual database to link the wordpress to so please follow this steps: navigate in your browser to http://localhost/phpmyadmin (I hope it is installed) Create a database with the name wordpress (or whatever else you want) Navigate to your wordpress directory on localhost … Read more