While there are simple single-click installation options on most servers nowadays for installing WordPress, these obfuscate important details of the installation process that you should understand.Using single-click installations without knowing how the application really works is dangerous if you become dependent upon a site and later cannot properly maintain, backup, restore, and repair it when it breaks.
It is incumbent upon you as a designer-developer and webmaster to truly understand all the ins-and-outs of how WordPress works, troubleshooting WP, managing the files and database, and ensuring that you always have full backups at all times and know how to restore them.
That being said, below are tutorials laid out in distinct phases that will help you understand all of the important steps in installing and backing up a WordPress site….
XAMPP stands for “X (one of four OSs), Apache, MySQL, PHP, PERL” and is used to enable your personal computer with the web and database tools necessary to host its own dynamically driven websites for testing and development purposes. The following tutorial video demonstrations will show you the steps to set your computer up as a “localhost” server on a Mac. Continue Reading: XAMPP – TURN YOUR MAC INTO A DEVELOPMENT SERVER
The following demonstrations will reiterate the pathways to your web serving directory on your file system, how to access the files through your web browser, and basics of understanding PHP error reporting.Continue Reading: XAMPP “localhost” and Intro to PHP Error Reporting
XAMPP stands for “X (one of four OSs), Apache, MySQL, PHP, PERL” and is used to enable your personal computer with the web and database tools necessary to host its own dynamically driven websites for testing and development purposes. The following tutorial video demonstrations will show you the steps to set your computer up as a “localhost” server on Windows.Continue Reading: XAMPP – Turn your PC into a development server
