


Bitnami provides a free all-in-one tool to install Drupal, Joomla!, WordPress and many other popular open source apps on top of XAMPP. In Linux I feel it’s easier to manually install WordPress directly onto the operating system. However, in my experience XAMPP is the easiest to use on Windows, and for that reason this article will focus on Windows. XAMPP is available on all three desktop operating systems.
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How to Install XAMPP, Ready for WordPress. If you want to install WordPress multi-site on a live server then check this tutorial. Beyond that though I am not sure of the advantages or disadvantages of either.

While I am using XAMPP in this example, I might suggest USBWebServer to run a local site web server as the process is much simpler and quicker. PHP and MySQL are included making it work easily for WordPress and WordPress Multi-site. I will be using XAMPP to run a “web server” on my local machine allowing me to host web sites. Well, in this article, and the accompanying video I will go through the process to make that happen. So you want to install a WordPress Multi-site Network on your local computer using XAMPP, huh? (you like that HTML Goodies throwback?) The localhost environment is working fine, and I’ve successfully followed the steps here to create a database and user account for WordPress using phpMyAdmin. I’m just getting started with WordPress, and currently using an XAMPP server to try and get a local installation working.
