Comments on: Using XAMPP for Local WordPress Theme Development

By: Kerri

Kerri — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:29:43 +0000

I cannot thank you enough for this tutorial. I tore my hair out yesterday (here, this clump’s for you) trying to use another tutorial on WAMPP. Now I can see how many steps were left out of that tutorial and yours has provided me with everything I needed, and shown me some good resources as well. Good work and many thanks.

By: Branden Silva

Branden Silva — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:23:46 +0000

Impress tutorial Jacob. Although I know all this information, If I was a newcomer, I would find this tutorial priceless in getting xampp, mysql, and word press up and running.

By: Esther

Esther — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:17:20 +0000

Nice tutorial but i need help on how to install wordpress mu on obuntu 8.04

By: Romul

Romul — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:09:34 +0000

I tried to use XAMPP once, but I think Denwer (http://www.denwer.ru/) is simpler and easier to use.

By: MC

MC — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:02:29 +0000

Hi,the site url is localhost/wordpress or something similar,and when i go to my actual wordpress account there is no upload theme button,any ideas?
thank you

By: Clare

Clare — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:38:55 +0000

I have set up a site using xampp and wordpress, it all looks fine, but all the links are looking for localhost, so I changed the site url and blog url in the settings to be http://servername/mysite as apposed to localhost/mysite and the front end works perfectly now but I was thrown out of the back end and could only get back in by changing the site url back to http://localhost/mysite in phpmyadmin, so I am back to square one. Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

By: Rajeev

Rajeev — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:57:06 +0000

Problem solved:

Problem: If you want to run asp and php together. you have installed xampp and followed the instructions given above but still could not get the things done.

Solutions: When you want to run xampp, disable the iis services from “SERVICES”. go to services.msc and disable “world wide web publishing” services. voila. you are done.

I am on windows 7 ultimate and running iis7.

By: Marni

Marni — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:29:50 +0000

Excellent tutorial.

By: Rajeev

Rajeev — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:08:44 +0000

Jacob,
It goes all well till step 28, but when i try to open the link given in step 29. it gives following error.

Object not found!

The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
localhost
2/28/2010 12:37:03 PM
Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.1 mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1

googled around everywhere, but no solution. hope you will help.
I am running windows 7 ultimate and iis7.5.

i have changed port, stopped iis, but no solution, same thing is coming again and again.

By: Dimitris

Dimitris — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:57:18 +0000

hey, i have a problem. i can’t download the test data. when i press on this link i go to a page, and i see a script. it does not open the download window.