WAMP or WampServer is a compilation of Apache web server, PHP and MySQL bundled for Windows computers. Basically, you need WAMP to setup your own local server environment and install WordPress on Windows. There are other clients for Windows such as XAMPP, but we use and recommend WAMP. It is free and easy to use.
After you have downloaded your WAMP Server it’s time to install. Go to your downloads folder and double click on the the .exe WAMP file you just downloaded, and select “run” and follow the install prompts.
Click on the “Next” button.
Accept the “Agreement” and click on “next”.
Select the folder destination for your WAMP install, or keep it as the default (shown below).
Choose if you want to have icons added to your desktop and quicklaunch.
Click “install” and let WAMP work its magic.
After the install is complete you will be able to see the files located at C:/wamp/ or your custom install directory, if you changed it from the default setting.
Click on the “Next” button.
Accept the “Agreement” and click on “next”.
Select the folder destination for your WAMP install, or keep it as the default (shown below).
Choose if you want to have icons added to your desktop and quicklaunch.
Click “install” and let WAMP work its magic.
Starting Your WAMP Server for the first time.
Ok, you now have the WAMP software installed, but in order to begin using the server we need to start it. Just like any program you can either use one of the icons you created during the installation process or look under Start->All Programs->WampServer folder and click on “startWampServer”
After starting your WAMP server an icon will appear in your task bar. You will see it in 1 of 3 states.
- Red, meaning no services on your WAMP server are currently running (when you first start the server it will be red, don’t panic, let it boot up.
- Orange, meaning the WAMP server has been started, but not all of the services are running (again don’t panic, as the server starts it will transition from red to orange to green)
- Green, meaning the WAMP server has been started and all it’s services are running correctly
As the server starts up it will go from red to orange to green, it shouldn’t take more than a minute. If it seems stuck on either red or orange you may need to reboot the server, or “Restart all Services”.
Restarting Your WAMP Server
An important note here is that WAMP conflicts with the default Skype settings, so if you are signed into Skype, and then start your WAMP server you will see the orange WAMP icon, meaning that not all of the WAMP services are running. There are two easy ways around this. First, you can quit Skype, start your WAMP server and then sign into Skype after you have a green WAMP icon, but you may have to do this more often than you would like. The good news, there is a better alternative; and that is to simply change your Skype settings. You need to be logged into your Skype account, then click on Tools->Options->Advanced->Connection and un-check “Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections”.
After you make the above changes to solve the Skype issue, or your not seeing a orange or red WAMP icon you can restart the server from the icon tray.
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Restarting Your WAMP Server
Verify Your WAMP is Working
If everything went according to plan and you have a “Green” WAMP icon you can now visit the url http://localhost and you should see the following:
Congratulations, your now have a fully functioning local development server setup and running! You can now add html files, php files, xml files, directories, ect to your www folder and they will be visible from your browser via http://localhost/yourdirectory, http://localhost/filename.php, http://localhost/your-directory/filename.php, ect. and behave as though they are on a live web server.
If you here just to setup a local server on your computer and take it from there you are done, I hope you enjoyed it, but if you want go a little further and install your first WordPress website onto your brand new server installation you can follow the tutuorial here Installing and Setting Up A WordPress Site On Your New WAMP Installation.
Setting Up a Database for WordPress
WampServer comes with phpMyAdmin, a web based application to manage MySQL databases. Click on the Wampserver icon in windows taskbar and then click on phpmyadmin.
phpMyAdmin will open in a new browser window. Click on Databases in phpmMyAdmin to create a new database for WordPress. Choose a name for your database and click on Create button.
Installing WordPress on Windows with WAMP
Download a copy of WordPress from WordPress.org. Extract the zip file and copy the wordpress folder. Go to C:wampwww and paste wordpress folder there. You can rename the wordpress folder to anything you want for example mysite, wpbeginner, etc. For the sake of this tutorial, we renamed our wordpress directory to mysite. Now open a web browser and go to:
http://localhost/mysite/
WordPress will inform you that it can not find a
wp-config.php file. Click on theCreate a Configuration File button to create it.
On the next screen, you need to provide your database information. The database name will be the one that you selected. In our case, we called it test_db. By default your database username will be root, and there is no password, so you can leave it blank. Click on the submit button and WordPress will create a configuration file for you.
After this you will see a screen informing you that WordPress has successfully created the configuration file, and you can proceed with the installation. Click onRun Install button.
On the next screen, fill out the installation form. You need to provide a title for your website, choose an admin username and password, and provide admin email address. Finally press the Install WordPress button.
WordPress will quickly run the installation and create database tables. Once done, you will see a success message after the installation. You can then proceed to your WordPress by clicking on the Log in button.
Troubleshooting WAMP Skype Error
If you have Skype installed and running then WampServer may not be able to work properly due to a conflict with Skype. The conflict is caused by both Apache and Skype using the same port 80. There is a simple fix for this problem. Open Skype and go to Tools » Options. Click on Advanced and then Connections. Uncheck the box that says Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections. Save options and restart Skype.
Enabling Pretty Permalinks in WAMP
Pretty permalinks will not work by default on your local server environment. All your URLs will look like localhost/mysite/?p=18. If you go to Settings » Permalinks and use one of the other opttions, then it will show you “page not found” errors. We have already written about a solution here that will show you how to enable custom permalinks in WAMP.
Migrating from WAMP to Live
After numerous request via twitter, facebook, email, and comments in this post, we have written a guide on how to move WordPress from WAMP local server to a live site. Hopefully you guys will find it helpful when you are ready to deploy your local site to production.
We hope that this article helped you install WordPress on your Windows computer using WAMP. Having a local server environment is great for learning and testing purposes. Remember, if you want to run a blog for other people to see, then you do not need to install WordPress on your computer. You need to install WordPress on aweb hosting provider.please feel free to ask in the comments below.
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