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<h1>Installing WordPress on Windows</h1>
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<li>Download XAMPP <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
<li>Download WordPress&nbsp;<a href="https://wordpress.org/latest.zip" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
<li><label for="cb_li_917989_0">Download Microsoft Visual C++&nbsp;</label><label for="cb_li_917989_0"><a href="https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe" target="_blank">Download</a></label></li>
<li>Install&nbsp;Microsoft Visual C++</li>
<li>Right click the downloaded&nbsp;XAMPP file &gt;&nbsp;Extract All...</li>
<li>Right click the downloaded&nbsp;Wordpress .zip file &gt; Extract All...</li>
<li>Make a copy of wordpress/wp-config-sample.php&nbsp;and name it wp-config.php</li>
<li>Cut&nbsp;the wordpress folder inside the XAMPP/htdocs directory</li>
<li>Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example</li>
<li>Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location</li>
<li>Run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe</li>
<li>Click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL</li>
<li>Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin</li>
<li>Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space &gt; Open PowerShell windows here...</li>
<li>Type the following in the PowerShell window to setup the WordPress database
<div class="codeBlock">./mysql -u root<br />
CREATE DATABASE wordpress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;<br />
GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO &#39;wordpress_user&#39;@&#39;localhost&#39; IDENTIFIED BY &#39;W0rdPr3ss!!&#39;;<br />
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;<br />
EXIT;</div>
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<li>Open a web browser and navigate to&nbsp;https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/</li>
<li>Copy the response for use shortly</li>
<li>Navigate to XAMPP/htdocs/wordpress and edit wp-config.php with a text editor</li>
<li>Press CTRL+F and search for &#39;DB_NAME&#39;</li>
<li>Update the database name, username and password</li>
<li>Press CTRL+F and search for &#39;AUTH_KEY&#39;</li>
<li>Paste the secure secret keys generated earlier, overwriting the template</li>
<li>Save the changes to wp-config.php</li>
<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/wordpress</li>
<li><label for="cb_li_138017_24">The Wordpress setup screen should be displayed</label></li>
<li><label for="cb_li_200802_25">Select a language &gt; Click Continue</label></li>
<li><label for="cb_li_618739_26">Create a site title and WordPress login &gt; Click Install WordPress</label></li>
<li><label for="cb_li_676045_27">When the installation completes, login with the WordPress credentials created in the previous step</label></li>
<li><label for="cb_li_194715_28">Welcome to your very own, self-hosted WordPress installation</label></li>
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