Trying to create a WP.org site that I can eventually move?

  • Kat

    (@kat-kelley)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    Thanks for looking at my post. Here’s my situation:

    I’ve volunteered to put together a new website for a local company. I want to build this new website on my own computer on my own time and I’m familiar with wordpress.com but it’s been awhile since I’ve done anything in www.remarpro.com. How exactly do I go about building this website without setting up any hosting? I just want to build it, be able to view it (doesn’t need to be public or even live) and then be able to transfer the files to them, which I could do via hard drive, so that they can transfer the hosting over to it. Is this possible?

    I saw one post mention bitnami which looks like it might be a useful way to run www.remarpro.com.?

    Thanks for any advice!

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  • Hi Kat,

    Glad you asked, its never bad to ask no matter how much experience you’ve got.

    That said, I would first get MAMP installed. It is a package that setups/installs everything you needed to have a local server on your local computer (apache, php, MySQL,etc..)

    After the installation of MAMP you would have MAMP tell you the directory where to place any files for the web server to read on your local computer.

    Download WordPress from www.remarpro.com, unzip the zip file downloaded, and copy the contents of the unziped file into your server directory that MAMP specified on your system. Those files are wp-admin, wp-content, wp-include, config-samlle.php, etc…

    You’ll also want to find out from MAMP what your MYSQL logins are; usually for local setup its; username: root, password: root and host: localhost:3306.

    Make sure apache or web server in MAMP is running, make sure MYSQL and PHP in MAMP is also running. Then go to your web browser of choice, type localhost or localhost/WordPress … If done right, you should be taken through the WordPress setup.

    If it asks for database, you can use MAMP to setup a database table, then entered that into WordPress setup process with root/root and localhost:3306.

    Hope that helps. Let us know.

    PS: all this will be local, on your system and without setting up or paying for hosting.

    MAMP is available here (free); https://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/

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