I am a complete novice. I followed your tutorial and was able to install wordpress. But, I am not sure how to link that to my blog. When it asked for website and mail ID, I gave my blog address and it created a new “blog” on my computer. Now, how do I link this to my own blog?

Regards

Anoop

P.S: Thanks for the tutorial

1. Just to make sure we are on the same page, these instructions are for installing Wordpress on a local computer (as opposed to a website).

2. Now you need to copy the Wordpress ‘root folder’ in the ‘www’ directory.

3. By ‘root folder’, I mean the folder which contains directories like wp-admin, wp-include, wp-content and other files like wp-config.php.

4. After you copy the root folder inside the c:\wamp\www\ go to http:\\localhost\

5. On the Wamp home page, in the middle of the page you will a header – Projects. Under Projects you should see the name of your folder. Click on this link.

This has been super helpful, I have to install wordpress on seven sites at work!!! I have followed everything up until The last step: the final step in showing your CMS application in the web browser is to copy the complete folder to the WWW directory, this folder will be residing inside the Wamp server home directory. (In my case it was “c:\wamp\www”) . You are all set to access your application from the browser by typing the complete URL – http://localhost/yourProjectName or by clicking at it from the Projects section in the Wamp server home page – http://localhost/.

do you mean copy the unzipped wordpress folder into the c:\wamp\www folder? I tried that and I still get a 404 error. Or did I get that backwards and I am supposed to take the index from c:\wamp\www and copy that somewhere? Or am I totally offbase and I have to use my ftp client to upload something? Any help is really appreciated!

I feel like i’m close, just need a little extra help?

Did you try unzipping a fresh wordpress installation?

Warning: require(C:\wamp\www\wordpress/wp-includes/compat.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\wamp\www\wordpress\wp-settings.php on line 200

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘C:\wamp\www\wordpress/wp-includes/compat.php’ (include_path=’.;C:\php5\pear’) in C:\wamp\www\wordpress\wp-settings.php on line 200

Last night I finally ended up with this error – Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp() in C:\wamp\www\test\wp-blog-header.php on line 18

Now, being a n00b and not knowing what I meant, I just deleted the contents of the “www” folder on Wampserver, deleted the db that I imported and restarted the process all over again from the stage where the db is set up.

After i downloaded my already set up WP folder from my online host, I had some problems with the plugins till I realized that plugins have to be disabled when we upgrade WP. So deleted plugins and loaded the page. After everything loaded properly, I added all the plugins again. A couple of the plugins dont seem to work in the local install, so I just deactivated those.

Now I am at a point, where my WP admin pages are all fine and my main page appears fine too. The individual post pages, though show a 404 error, though I can see the posts on the admin section.

Once I take care of these 404 errors, I think i will be up and running.

Additionally I have some more tweaks, real time security concerns rather and how to tackle them, lined up for Wordpress. So keep checking back.

Thanks. Yes, it was generic and a n00b error only

I found that I was several steps away from making it work and I think now I am one step away. I think I will have it up and running tonight.

thanks for the tip

Its a very generic error and from what it seems, the app is not able to connect to the db. My understanding is that the db details are stored in the wp-config file. So double check this file and make sure the entries match your local db value.

Also, since your db data is from the online host, you can make sure the db user value is in syn with the local db. By default the local db user is root, but if you created the db online initially, the web host gives it some random user name. Maybe this also needs to be in sync.

The error is pretty generic, I can only give you leads on this. Not the exact cause.

From the post I gather your immediate requirement is to test the template. You might want to consider creating another project and use a locally created db. This would defn work and you can load the template plus copy paste some posts to test it out.

Let me know how it goes!

I went in and created a database with the same name as my WP db. I also backed up my DB to the local computer and imported it to the WAMPServer install. I moved my complete wordpress installation from my online host to my local computer.

Now when go to “http://localhost/test/” where “test” is my WP install, I get a “Error establishing a database connection”.

Any ideas? I mean, like I said I am a n00b, so this is probably caused by the dumbest error one could make. So feel free to point me to a resource that can help me, should you think it would be tedious to instruct me yourself

The post has been very informative and I hope to start using this to play around.