Comments on: Installing WordPress on a local machine… http://www.diversity.net.nz/installing-wordpress-on-a-local-machine/2008/05/17/ Commentary and Analysis for User-Centered Technology Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:02:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: CJ http://www.diversity.net.nz/installing-wordpress-on-a-local-machine/2008/05/17/comment-page-1/#comment-34879 CJ Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:52:12 +0000 http://diversity.net.nz/?p=1094#comment-34879 Thank you so much! It worked finally. Great clear simple tutorial Thank you so much! It worked finally. Great clear simple tutorial

]]> By: Andrew Biss http://www.diversity.net.nz/installing-wordpress-on-a-local-machine/2008/05/17/comment-page-1/#comment-4100 Andrew Biss Sat, 17 May 2008 17:07:48 +0000 http://diversity.net.nz/?p=1094#comment-4100 Rather than installing Wordpress under Windows XP I use the free VMware Server to create virtual machines. In the virtual machine I have installed Ubuntu Server. This comes includes the Apache, MySQL and PHP components needed for Wordpress. I then easily mirror my hosting environment locally, using the same userid, passwords and directory tree. This makes it easy to backup and restore from one environment to another. It also simple to ZIP the virtual machines to make complete server back-ups. Ubuntu Server runs happily with 64MB of RAM and has proven worthwhile for me. I have Ubuntu virtual machines for each web site, plus others with Windows 2000 to test Internet Explorer versions. If you have not yet tried using one of the virtual machine tools then I recommend giving them a try. Rather than installing WordPress under Windows XP I use the free VMware Server to create virtual machines.

In the virtual machine I have installed Ubuntu Server. This comes includes the Apache, MySQL and PHP components needed for WordPress. I then easily mirror my hosting environment locally, using the same userid, passwords and directory tree.

This makes it easy to backup and restore from one environment to another. It also simple to ZIP the virtual machines to make complete server back-ups.

Ubuntu Server runs happily with 64MB of RAM and has proven worthwhile for me.

I have Ubuntu virtual machines for each web site, plus others with Windows 2000 to test Internet Explorer versions.

If you have not yet tried using one of the virtual machine tools then I recommend giving them a try.

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