How to test WordPress on my PC?

  • My website’s gone, and before going to get a new host, perhaps I can use this period to play around with my wordpress locally on my PC.
    But how? Is there kind of server software that can do the job so I can test the wordpress blog on my PC?
    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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  • Xampp is superb:
    https://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

    A default xampp install ? Use the below in your wp-config.php

    // ** MySQL settings ** //
    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’); // Your MySQL username
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

    If netbeans with tomcat is already installed, is it possible to use that to run/test php also? Any links on that, if it’s possible?

    Thread Starter stchatterbox

    (@stchatterbox)

    podz, i’ve already installed the server.
    well, there was something strange that happens. when i type 127.0.0.1/blog
    it showed up my blog, but all the links were back to my old website; what i meant are the comments, and entry permanent links etc…..

    why is that? thanks

    siteurl and home values need altering to what it is now.
    https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/

    Thread Starter stchatterbox

    (@stchatterbox)

    :)got it work, thanks…..there’re still definitely many more to change coz i’ve added lots of plugins……:(

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