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How to install XAMPP and setup Localhost WordPress Installation Latest Guide

XAMPP is one of the famous software for most of website developer and publishers, before we get start lets us understand.

What is XAMPP?

XAMPP is an open source software which is developed by Apache friends, the main use of XAMPP is to test the website locally without need of internet before uploading to the web server.

It is always best to test website locally before publishing online as locally testing speed will be faster, most common example is WordPress and html website testing or php scripts testing, also you can get preinstalled WordPress or other application from apache friends as a beginner you can go for that,

But for professional use it is always best to install XAMPP so you can install multiple Applications at the same time.

XAMPP Features:

There are lots of features depending on your use few are mentioned below:

MariaDB

PHP

Perl

phpMyAdmin, to install WordPress, html sites, or php scripts and so on.

Now let’s dive in how you can download and install XAMPP, you can do this by following steps

Download XAMPP

Install XAMPP on your PC

Installing WordPress

Let’s get started:

Download XAMPP

Download XAMPP from official site

Download link here

Install XAMPP on your PC

Install XAMPP by following on screen instructions or you can watch video at the end of this article for easy to understand.

Installing WordPress

As mentioned earlier you can install many of Applications in this article i am going to show you how you can install WordPress locally on Localhost with XAMPP.

You can follow this guide or for easy to understand you may watch guide at the end of this article.

Step 1.

Download Latest WordPress from official website

Download link Here

Step 2.

Start XAMPP Control Panel and make sure you Start

Apache and MySQL

Now click on MySQL Admin

Then click on Databases to create a new database in this scenario I am creating a database name freewayos

You can create as per your need once you created a database.

Now visit http://localhost/ in your browser of your choice like Google Chrome or Firefox etc.

Step 3.

Copy WordPress files as downloaded earlier from WordPress site make sure you extract these files in XAMPP installation directory inside htdocks folder, them name this WordPress folder as per need as in this scenario I named freewayos

Step 4.

Now let configure wordpress website in you browser type http://localhost/freewayos (here instead of freewayos you may type name of the database earlier created by MySQL Admin area)

Select language

Next screen type

Database name: freewayos

(as created earlier it has to be the same to link the database with WordPress installation).

Username leave as it is root

Password leave it blank (as by default WordPress installation password is blank)

All other fields leave it same as it is and click submit.

If you complete all the steps correctly you site is ready to use.

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Off-line developing during an intercity trip in 2019

As you might imagine from the title, I am at the moment of writing this article sitting in a train from Berlin to Hamburg. For those of you who have never been in Germany...we do have WIFI on the trains here, but contrary to what you might expect it is really bad. (And if it is sometimes fast enough, you get only 200mb of traffic <= Thanks to mac address randomization that can be bypassed)

Wait, what? Bad WIFI on trains in the first world industry nation Germany? Yes, even during my travel on a train in Thailand I had way better WIFI than I ever experienced in the German trains. There are two main factors for that:

Bad mobile network overall...if you leave the bigger cities you most of the time do not even have Edge (yes kids, slower than 2G) or a mobile network connection at all. So sad!

Cheap hardware in the trains. Actually the modems in the trains are standard 3G modems you may also purchase as mobile hot-spot device. Sure they are a bit more powerful, but they are not made for this special use case: Connection to new base stations in at a high ratio. It actually is a quite hard technical challenge to have a modem do this on a high speed train. But we have 2019 ...thinking about sending people to mars...and as we can see in other countries this problem is apparently solved. Maybe some more money would be good invested here.

But enough ranting about the WIFI in here (that is BTW current non existent)

OK sorry one more thought: Looking around me I see a lot of people in nice suites working on there laptops. Imagine them earning 60€/hour and they need double the time for a task, because the WIFI is so weak. Assuming there are 100 (conservative calculation) of such people on a train. So during this single trip from Berlin to Hamburg (2h) there is 60€ * 100 * 2 = 12 000€ of wasted human capital....better not tell that any company paying their employees the train ride and the "work time" during this trip.

Actually this article is about tech

I experience this not the first time, but why am I triggered this time that much, that I decided to write a blog post about this topic? As web developer I am currently working on a live chat project (gramchat.me - please be kind, the landing page would be finished if I actually could work here) where I wanted to finish the landing page & documentation during this trip.

Now I experience myself sitting here and my laptop, normally the device paying my rent, is not more than a dump black box....close to every work flow I have does requires the Internet, I can't work off-line. grrrrr

How could that happen? Normally I am always at places with good WIFI or mobile network (Berlin Big City Life) and so some bad habits sneaked in:

Development work

Google fonts

Payment gateway that needs to be configured

Documentation (How could anyone write software before stackoverflow?)

Package tools for just in time downloading of dependencies

Github Issues and Board for organization

Backend infrastructure is build on AWS lambda (can't test that offline)

Entertainment

Movies are on netflix

Music is on spotify

I read mostly blog posts and web articles (via Hackero ;))

Communication

Telegram/WhatsApp/Email

Information

I am struggling to write this article as non-native speaker as I can't use Google translate

...and so on

Short interruption: Because of other issues I had to change to another (slower) train. This one does not have WIFI at all...so now next level shit.

I sit here and have basically three options what to do:

Compose electronic music with LMMS, what I downloaded a few weeks ago but have no clue how to use it :'D

Code something in Go. Thanks Goland for your awesome build in standard lib documentation!

Write this article ranting about the German train situation and about myself of being so depended on a resource I thought about as natural as air

So here I am writing the article :D

Prevent such a situation in the future

So the biggest fail, is me not being prepared for off-line usage of my devices. So what will I do to prevent this in the future? Technical problems need technical solutions:

Entertainment

Music: Have at least some of my favorite playlists available offline

Movies: Actually I see it not as a big problem not binch-watching for some hours => Keeps me focused on working

Get a off-line "read it later" system. A while ago I used wallabag and will reinstall it on all my devices.

Communication

You actually can not do much about it...so nothing to improve here

If you do not have an off-line usable email and messaging client you should get yourself one. (Telegram has a nice desktop standalone) It is nice to at least be able to search trough archived emails/chats

Information

Off-line dictionary it is

Is there a Firefox/Chrome Plugin that save all the web pages I visit to an off-line storage? So that I can go back in my history and access the pages I visited before...if not I might code one.

Development work

There are a lot different off-line code documentation systems. I did choose zeal as it works on Linux and is standalone (the other ones work in the browser and as I most of the time surf in private mode they would not work for me, as I wipe the local storage at least every few days)

Off-line PHP server => Was actually quite easy. Did you know PHP has a build-in server? php -S localhost:8080

AWS lambda offline testing framework? No clue how to this yet...maybe a good topic for another blogpost

There are actually some clients for github with offline issue support. I will give them a try

Cache/save web resources locally. Maybe a good idea overall..better not include Google as dependency in your project as they will abuse that data you send them with every visitor

There is an (sadly old) StackOverflow dump, that could end up in some tool to search trough it...would be amazing. (but maybe will take a lot of disk space)

Oh girl, another thing came up: I have to show my train ticket, wich is a PDF attached to an email...that I never downloaded. What is going on here...my life goes nuts without Internet. Download your important tickets/documents

So overall this trip showed me how depending I am on the Internet and that I should change that. Please see this post as work in progress as I will update and add off-line tools when I get to know them and have more experience with them.

Overall there is one main learning: Download stuff instead of only opening it in the browser. (Same here with my university pdfs...never did download them for offline use, so no research for me no)

If someone was in this situation him or herself and found out other tools that helped I would love if you share them with me, so that I can introduce them into my stack and update this article.

So now I hope that the Edge Internet connection I have on my mobile Hotspot right now will be enough to upload this article :'D

Wish you an awesome (online) time!

Simon

p.S. Another thing I found: Check what applications are using Internet on your machine, so that if you only have low bandwidth this important resource does not get sucked away by an open Skype or so.

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