Manual Installation Instructions
If you have a sufficiently powerful home computer and a sufficiently fast broadband connection, you may want to avoid certain hosting charges by using your own computer as a server. The following tutorials will show you how to setup a server environment and install WordPress on your home computer.
- Install WordPress Locally on Windows XP with XAMPP (easy)
- Install WordPress Locally on Windows Vista and XP with WEMP (nginx, MySQL and PHP)
- Install WordPress Locally on Windows Vista and XP with WLMP (lighttpd, MySQL and PHP)
- Install WordPress Locally on Gentoo Linux (easy)
- Install WordPress Locally on Debian Etch using .deb (easiest)
- Install WordPress Locally on Debian Linux (easy)
- Install WordPress Locally on Fedora Linux (easy)
- Install WordPress Locally on Ubuntu Linux with LAMP (easy)
- Installing WordPress Locally on Your Mac With MAMP
Using a Software Appliance
Manual installation of WordPress on a local server can be painful and time consuming, especially for users lacking technical proficiency. Many users may find that using a pre-integrated software appliance is an easier way to get up and running with WordPress, especially in combination with virtual machine software (e.g., VMWare, VirtualBox, Xen HVM, KVM).
A software appliance allows users to altogether skip manual installation of WordPress and its dependencies, and instead deploy a self-contained system that requires little to no setup, in just a couple of minutes.
- TurnKey WordPress Appliance: An open source WordPress appliance based on Ubuntu, which features a small footprint, automatic security updates, SSL support and a Web administration interface.