Category: WordPress

In this article, I will show you how to create a WordPress Website local by flywheel. Mostly websites are naturally hosted online, there are lots of conditions in which we might need to create a local WordPress site. For instance, you may want to setup a staging environment to develop the site before it goes live. You require a safe place to experiment with designs or perform troubleshooting.

This article makes it easy to install WordPress on your PC, clone your site, and even push your local version live.

Download and Install local WordPress

1- Getting Local by flywheel on your hard drive. For that, open the local website and then click on Download.

2- This will open a new window, in which you need to select your operating system (Mac, Windows, Linux).

3- Type your first, last name, work email, phone number and then select get it now to start the download.

Create WordPress Website Local by Flywheel

4- Go to your download folder, right-click on local-5.9.8.. and then select run as administrator.

5- Choose installation options and click next.

6- If you want to Default install location then simple click next.

7- I am using my D Drive for installation, click Install.

8- Local by flywheel installing.

9- Select run local checkbox and then click finish.

How to Create a New Local Site

10- After successfully local installation, the local welcome screen will open. You need to create a new local site, click create a new site.

11- What’s your site name screen, type a unique name (TestSite) and then click continue.

12- You can view Advanced Options, you can change the local domain it will have and the path on your hard drive where files are stored. Pick what you want (I used Preferred) and then click continue.

Setup the Local WordPress User and Password.

13- In this setup WordPress, Now we can create a WordPress username, password, and email. We can also decide whether this website will be a Multisite under the Advanced Options. Select Add Site when you have done.

14- Local by flywheel will then get to work. It’s depending on your computer, you may get some prompts asking for permissions which you want to grant.
There are two important buttons in the top right corner name Admin and View Site.

Click on the open site to open the WordPress dashboard or front end of the local site in your browser.

15- Here’s what that looks like.

16- Click on admin button to login.

17- local by flywheel sites.

18- Here is the local WordPress dashboard.

Related: WordPress vs. Custom-Built Websites

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In this blog, you will learn different ways to uninstall or remove Laragon in Windows 7/8/10 system. follow the below steps.

Uninstall or Remove Laragon From Windows 7/8/10

There are three ways to remove and uninstall laragon localhost WordPress in the windows 7/8/10 system.
Let’s start with how to remove uninstall laragon from windows 7/8/10

1- Open run command |(press windows key+R), type appwizc.pl and then select ok.

2- Select Laragon and then select uninstall button.

3- Laragon uninstall, So click yes.

4- Laragon uninstall status.

5- Laragon successfully removed from your computer click ok.

UsinApps & features

1- In the windows search bar type Apps & features and then select to open it.

2- Scroll down select laragon and then click twice on uninstall.

3- Laragon successfully removed click ok.

Uninstall Laragon from programs

1- Select Windows button, select Laragon and then select Uninstall.

2- Click Yes to remove laragon.

3- Click Ok.

How to install laragon

Fixed Service Apache can not start. Reason: Failed: Apache httpd. After the Laragan installation, when we start services, a problem will occur something like “Apache can not start”.

Service Apache can not start. Reason:

1- failed: Apache httpd-2.4.35-win64-VC15

1- Select settings icons.

3- Under laragon preferences, select Services & Ports, and then the SSL checkbox enabled.
Close preferences window.

4- Open again preferences and then uncheck SSL 443 enables box.

5- Select start all and your Apache service started.

6- If you get same error message again then follow the below steps.

Laragon Apache problem

1- Fixed: It is very easy to fix apache can start in Laragon. Go to laragon installed directory D:\laragon/bin/apache/httpd-2.4.35-win64-VC15\conf. (maybe you can find it in C Drive, I have installed it in D drive).

2- Right-click on httpd.conf file and then select open it.

3- Select notepad and then click ok.

4- Press Ctrl + F, type Listen 80 in finding what, and then hit enter.
Find Listen 80

5- Change Listen 80 port to 85 and save the notepad.

6- Select Stop.

7- Now select Start All the serve.

8- Enjoy Laragon

For more details visit Laragon website

In this blog, I will show you how to install WordPress in Windows with laragon. The laragon setup of a local development environmental under Windows is described using Laragon.

With Laragon a local software stack consisting of the following server components is installed:
Apache Web Server
MySQL
PHP

Install WordPress in Windows Laragon

Download and install Laragon

Download the latest release from the Laragon light from their website.

1- For Windows 10 (64-bit): download Laragan light.

2- Double click on laragon-wamp.exe file to run the installation.

3- Select the language and then click ok.

4- Welcome to the laragon setup wizard, click next.

5- Select destination folder you can specify where Laragon should be installed (I am using d drive you can choose even default). Click next.

6- In the setup Laragon window, some configuration settings can already be specified, click next.

7- Select the Install button to start the laragon wordpress installation.

8- Laragon localhost wordpress installation in progress.

9- Successfully installed laragon, keep the checkbox select run laragon and then click finish.

10- Laragon Lite window, select start all.

At this stage, the Windows Defender Firewall (or another system firewall) will almost certainly report and prompt both the Apache HTTP Server and the MySQL server to allow access to the local network. These 2 accesses should be granted for the further operation of the web and database server.
When the servers are allowed to access the corresponding ports successfully, Laragon must show the two services Apache and MySQL as started.

Maybe you will get an error message service apache can not start. Reason;
11- Select Web menu.

12- WordPress Localhost screen.

How to change rename Laragon

13- Go to the Laragon installed directory, open www, and then open index.php in notepad.

14- Scroll down and you can find “Laraton”.

15- Change it to your project name (TestSite).

16- Refresh your web browser.

17- Select the settings icon.

18- Select down arrow key next to Databases; you can see default databases.

19- How to create database in Laragon, select Terminal menu.

20- Type mysql –uroot –p and hit enter
Hit enter again without typing any password.

21- Type show databases; to view the databases.
Type create database TestDB; and hit enter
Type show databases; now you can see a new database (testdb).

How to create new project in Laragon

22- Right-click with your mouse from System Tray and then select Quick Create.
Select your platform (WordPress).

23- Type your project a name. This name will be the name of the folder and your localhost domain. For example, if we call the new project TestSite, domain will be http://TestSite.test. Click ok.

24- Wait Laragon start creating project.

25- Successfully created database (TestSite). Click close

26- Laragon will launch WordPress in web browser.
Or type (testsite.test) and hit enter.
Select your language and then hit continue.

27- Enter database info.
Site title – TestSite
Username – Admin (you can choose any one)
Type a strong or copy the default one in notepad.
Type your email and then select install WordPress.

28- Select log in.

29- Type username (Admin), password and then press log in.

30- WordPress Dashboard.

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How to uninstall Laragon

In this article, I will use different ways to uninstall bitnami WordPress stack. When a program is installed on your computer, that program is added to the list in Programs and Features. When we need to uninstall the program, we can open Programs and Features to uninstall it. So when we need to uninstall BitNami WordPress Stack the first solution is to uninstall it via Apps and Features.

How to install bitnami wordpress stack

Open Apps & Features

1- Click search bar, type Apps & features and then open it.

2- Scroll down, select Bitnami WordPress Stack, select Uninstall twice.

3- Click Yes

4- Uninstalling Bitnami.

5- Uninstallation completed click ok.

Open Programs and Features

1- Select Windows key + R, type appwiz.cpl in the open box and then select ok.

2- Look for BitNami WordPress Stack in the program list, select it and then select Uninstall/Change button to initiate the uninstallation.

3- Select Yes.

4- Click ok

Uninstall BitNami WordPress Stack with its uninstaller.exe.

1- Most of system programs have an executable file named uninstall.exe or something along these lines. You can find these files in the installation folder of BitNami WordPress Stack.
Go to the bitnami directory folder of BitNami WordPress Stack.
Find uninstall.exe and then Double click on its uninstaller and follow the wizard to uninstall BitNami.

2- Click Yes

3- Click ok

For more details visit Bitnami

In this guide, I will walk you, how to install bitnami WordPress in Windows 10. Throughout the process of using a Bitnami native installer to deploy a WordPress server application on your local development system.

Introduction

Bitnami native installer provides pre-packaged images for automated setup of popular server software on Windows/Mac OS X/Linux platforms. Every installer includes all of the software necessary to run out of the box, and it’s also completely self-contained. This means that there are no additional libraries, databases, and runtimes to download, and, once installed, the new application or development environment will not interfere with other software on your system.

Log in and start using WordPress

Install WordPress Using The Bitnami WordPress Stack

Download Bitnami, follow the below steps.

2- Double click on the installation file to start the bitnami installation.

3- Select the installation language and then click ok.

4- If you have any antivirus installed, just click yes to continue.

5- Bitnami wordpress stack welcome screen, click next to proceed.

6- On the component selection screen, select WordPress, PhpMyAdmin, and then click Next.

7- Select the installation directory for installation and then click next.

8- Type your name, email address, WordPress login password.

These last two values will be needed to login to the WordPress administration panel in the next step, please bear in mind. Click next.

9- Type your WordPress blog’s name (you can always change it later) and then click next.

10- Configure SMTP settings leave default and click next.

11- Click next.

12- Bitnami local WordPress ready to install click next.

13- The installation process begins installing to the directory you specified. The process will take some minutes.

14- Bitnami WordPress stack successfully installed. Select the checkbox to launch the Bitnami WordPress Stack and then click Finish.

15- This process should launch a new browser window with a welcome screen. Click the Access WordPress link.

16- You can also access this welcome screen by opening your Web browser and typing the URL http://localhost or http://localhost:8080 (depending on which platform you are using and whether you installed the stack as an administrator or regular user) into the browser address bar.

You will see the front page of your blog with a sample post, as below:

To log in to the WordPress dashboard, follow the below steps.

17- Browse to the WordPress dashboard, usually at the URL http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin or http://localhost:8080/wordpress/wp-admin.

18- Now you have arrived at the WordPress dashboard, which will permit you to manage posts, pages, and comments.

Customize your blog with plugins and themes.

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