One of the XAMPP stack’s most significant advantages is the outright compatibility with WordPress. WordPress, indeed, has become the most popular Content Management System as well as blog publishing/site creation platform, as the company also claims that 34% of websites on the internet use Wordpress as a CMS — that’s a lot.

In this article, we go over a step by step process of how you can install Wordpress on top of your XAMPP stack.

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Installing Wordpress on XAMPP

Step 1: Download the WordPress installation package from the official website.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded file into a directory of your choice.

Step 3: Move your WordPress directory to the /opt/lampp/htdocs folder. You can do this using the terminal using the following commands:

sudo mv wordpress /opt/lampp/htdocs

Step 4: Change the directory ownership of the whole WordPress directory. Type in the following commands to do so:

groups [username] //this will give you your group name
sudo chown [username]:[groupname] /opt/lampp/htdocs/wordpress

Step 5: Now start your XAMPP server, goto localhost and fire up phpMyAdmin. Here you’re going to have to create a new database called ‘wordpress’.

Step 6: It’s time to configure your wp-config file now. Head over to /opt/lampp/htdocs/wordpress, and you’ll find a file called wp-config-sample.php. Open the file and edit it to add the database name, username and password that we created in the last step.

Step 7: It’s time to verify your WordPress installation. Open a browser and head over to https://localhost/wordpress. If the installation were successful, you’d see a page where you can enter your WordPress login credentials and website details.

Now you can go ahead and log in to your WordPress website.

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