“Setting Up a Local Web Server”
WordPress Ottawa Meetup
May 2rd, 2018
Slides are posted at:
http://www.slideshare.net/r3df

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Setting up a local web server
Why do we need a local web server?
 To run WordPress on your laptop (or pc).
Why run WordPress on your laptop?
 Test new plugins and themes.
 Play with WordPress without the need for a public
server.
 Website development.
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What is a local web server?
Alocal web server:
 Is a web server installed on your own computer.
 Generally they are not public.
A web server
 Is a collection of software needed to respond to
browser requests.
 The software needed depends on what the web
application is.
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What is a local web server?
For a webserver that runs WordPress, we need:
 Web Server
 Apache or Nginx (or others like IIS)
 Programming language
 PHP (there are others, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java)
 Database
 MySQL or MariaDB (there are others)
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How do you get all that on your computer?
WAMPstack
 Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP
LAMP stack
 Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
MAMP stack
 Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP
* Apache is a web server
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Some stacks
All platforms:
 BitNami: bitnami.com/ stack/ wordpress
 XAMPP: apachefriends.org
Windows only:
 WampServer: wampserver.com
Mac & Windows:
 MAMP: mamp.info
Mac & Linux:
 Native installs
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Check ports in use
In a shell/ command prompt/ terminal run:
 netstat -an
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Database Search and Replace script for migrations
Migrating WordPress
 Moving from one domain to another ie:
dev.mydomain.com to mydomain.com
When migrating WordPress the database needs to be
updated to change all instances of the old domain to the
new one.
interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-
wordpress-databases/
OR backup solution that does migration (Backup Buddy)
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