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Catherine Millington
3,754 PointsHow do I do the XAMPP set up for WORDPRESS?
The Local Wordpress Development tutorial teaches XAMPP for PC and then goes back to using the MAMP software for Mac for the rest of the steps. I have no idea how to use XAMPP.
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Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsOnce you have XAMPP installed an running on your computer, all you have to do is start the apache and mysql modules, and than from there everything you'll do will be through the web browser. That's basically all the interaction you'll have with XAMPP.
Catherine Millington
3,754 PointsCatherine Millington
3,754 PointsThanks. How do i set up a username for wordpress if i can't do it through MAMP as the tutorial shows?
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsKevin Korte
28,149 PointsAre you talking about the database user wordpress uses, or the actual wordpress user you log in as after wordpress is installed?
Catherine Millington
3,754 PointsCatherine Millington
3,754 PointsThe actual wordpress user. I think i have found it. I need to get to the phpmyadmin and its on the SQL admin button on the XAMPP. There isn't a mention of how to get to it on the tutorials unless i am missing something.
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsKevin Korte
28,149 PointsYep correct. You can click on the admin button for mysql on the XAMPP control panel, that will launch phpmyadmin in your browser.
From there you can set up your database, user, etc.
I don't know if it's in the videos here, to be honest. But that's how you do it.