How to install WordPress on your local computer – WordPress tutorial 2
In this video, I download and install WordPress on to my local computer, using MAMP as my localhost.
I’ll cover the following:
1. Where to download WordPress.
2. Where you can learn about MAMP.
3. Where to place your WordPress files.
4. How to create a database in PHPmyAdmin.
5. Run through the famous 5 minute WordPress installation.
6. How to log into WordPress
Watch my video on how to download MAMP for windows here:
Something wrong? Try reading the WordPress documentation here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
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Hi, i can’t open localhost:8888/phpmyadmin page not found. How solve the problem thanks
Thanks! Subscribed.
I followed all your instructions but I cannot find the my website option as well.
Subscribed.
Thanks so much for this Quentin. Very useful!
Error establishing a database connection
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host’s database server is down.
Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
Are you sure that the database server is running?
Please help me I do not know what the problem is
How do I connect my website that I already built on WordPress to this local install. I have just been using the WordPress admin website to adjust my site and now I want it adjust it locally. Any tips anybody? Thanks.
Awesome and very helpful, thank you!
if it didnt work for you just reinstall but without pro couse pro changes your host this worked for me
Also if you have problems, getting into the phpmyadmin like i did, just open op the mamp startpage and click on phpmyadmin under tools
can you make a website on mamp and after that host by an hosting compnay ?
localhost refused to connect.
Quentin, your tutorials are great – very easy to follow and very educative 🙂
Thanks !
great review, Thanks!
Hi, Can you help me. If i plan to have 2 different website, can i use it under one wordpress platform or do i need to install on different WP platform ? Thanks.
Quentin — you are the BEST! I have never commented on YouTube before but I had to write something. You are amazing, really. I have learned so much from you. I cannot thank you enough for all of these wonderful tutorials. I don’t know what I would do without you!
I do not have the "My Website" button for some reason. I bypassed it by going to the localhost:8888 URL and it loaded fine, but I’ve entered all the credentials fine and it repeatedly says it cannot connect. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled MAMP twice now and to no avail. I’m think of just trying Wampserver as I have been at this for an hour now.
When I open MAMP then there is no option of my website. Can anyone help??
Having the problem everyone else is having where it says "Error establishing a database connection". I tried changing local host to 8889 but it just downloads a setup-config.php file that I don’t know what to do with. What’s the next step to fixing this problem? Someone help.
Can you do a tutorial on how to do this on a PC?
Very good, thanks Quentin! really helped me and made my day today!
Incredibly helpful video, cheers man!
Hi Quentin! Great explanation, I subscribed 🙂 I was wondering, with what program did you record your video? I mean, the screen capture.. Hope to hear from you!
I love you Quentin lol you’ve solved my installation problems! Thanks
How do I change my Host, Port, User and Password on MAMP? I have a sneaky suspicion that it’s not a good idea to leave it set as the default outlined in this tutorial? And if I change them, do I need to somehow update that on WordPress as well?
It does my heart good to see such a good tutorial, thank you my friend it was extremely helpful.
I just realized why this is not working for me… its for mac.
>.<
so I’ve been working on a site for about a week and now I lost the page and can’t log back into WordPress. to customize and change things just shows me the website via mamp….can see all of my info on localhost but WordPress is telling me my password is wrong even after I keep making a new one.. what am I doing wrong?? please help
Hey! I don’t have My Website in the MAMP tab. Is that a big issue?
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Thank you!
hi Michael Nweze, I also facing the same issue now, mywebsite option is not showing. how to overcome this? Quentin if you respond it will be great to follow the rest of the videos. thankssss
Hey Quentin,
I can’t access mySQL server, can you help?
so im having a little trouble and i would really appreciate it if you answered. I did all these steps and im all good, plugged in my theme and everything is going great. my website domain is still the local 888 thing and I want to upgrade to the premium option of wordpress so i can have my own domain such as http://www.example.com. Plz Plz Plz let me know how to do that through wordpress because i cant find anything online about it.
Amazing content! Thanks so much!
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For those of you who didn’t have the server option unzip the wordpress files in the mamp htdocs folder, and then delete mamp in the url you will get redirceted to picking a language and then you can continue on setting up wordpress.
Hi there, I followed your instructions to run a WordPress website on my localhost. There was no problem in the past days but since yesterday, I can’t open my WordPress site anymore because ‘the network-connection has unexpected stopped’. The Apache and MySQL servers are still running and I have no clue why I cannot reach my (test) website anymore.. Do you know what I need to do cause I can’t find it on the internet…
Hi Quentin, I just wanted to say thanks for great simple step by step explanations. I learned a lot.
Hey i will install wordpress as like demo ..see more https://goo.gl/EOBdBI
Thank you so much for this video! Watching yours along with one other video I was able to download and install WordPress! 🙂
hey Quentin,
I tried localhost:8888/phpmyadmin…..i get this error "The requested URL /phpmyadmin was not found on this server." Pls help me out !!
Please check the comments below for a list of common issues mentioned by other viewers.
When putting your details in please try locahost and the port number. For example "localhost:8889" or whatever your SQL port is set to.
You can get this port from MAMP -> Preferences -> Ports
If u guys got and error with your database connection you should try this one.
Database Name: wp_demo
Username: root
Password: root
Database Host: localhost8889
Table Prefix: wp_
Where is the "my website" coming from? I don’t see this after completing the previous steps.
I face some problem at 2:44 where i need to find the button for "my website" but however when i open the web i cant find the button "my website" on that site. So is there anything i can do about it to let it show up? or have i not done any steps yet? thanks >.<
Simple and to the point. I liked it 😉
This is really becoming frustrating. I tried every comment with solving instructions and still have "error establishing database connection".