I decided to setup wordpress on my local machine for a backup and testing purpose. So here I’ll share with you How-to do it using Ubuntu.

First thing first you need to have Ubuntu installed on your machine first Here are the components that you need for wordpress setup : apache2-common, mysql-server, and libapache2-mod-php5. How to install all these components is to open Ubuntu Synaptic (System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager) and search for needed component. Right click on component name and “Mark for installation”. Apply after you mark everything and wait until it finish install

Next step after you finish installed needed component are to setup and create mysql database. Below are the step for you to follow :

> su (comment : after you ’su’ you will be asking a password for root user)

> /etc/init.d/mysql start

> mysqladmin create wp_db -u root -p (comment: hit ‘Enter’ and insert your root password)

> mysql -u root -p (comment: hit ‘Enter’ and insert your root password)

> grant all privilileges on *.* to ‘root’@'localhost’ identified by ‘rootpassword’;

> grant all privileges on wp_db.* to ‘wpuser’@'localhost’ identified by ‘wpuserpassword’;

> quit

Ok..you done mysql part Next step is to download wordpress from wordpress.org and then extract downloaded file into Ubuntu directory, usually people extract into /var/www/ but I like to put it in user’s home directory. After extracted, you edit wp-config-sample.php. and save it as wp-config.php. Change all these parameter just like below (base on this example)

define(’DB_NAME’, ‘wp_db’);
define(’DB_USER’, ‘wpuser’);
define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ‘wpuserpassword’);
define(’DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

You need to do soft link if you didn’t putting wordpress in /var/www/.

> cd /var/www

> ln -s /home/user/wordpress wordpress (comment : /home/user/ is where you extract your wordpress)

Ok..now you can start apache

> apache2ctl start

Open your internet browser and type http://localhost/wordpress/. From here you just follow wordpress instruction

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