Local Installation Wordpress Tutorial

I downloaded WordPress and had tried to install it - to no avail!!!!! I first used phpdev, and that didn't work, then I found an 'easy' way using XAMMP. Still didn't work though - but I still kept trying, and it still kept mucking up.

I thought I found just about every tutorial and documentation in installing it locally. I like to do this so I can develop templates etc without having a live site look weird or 'breaking'.

When attempting to install Wordpress locally on my computer (I wanted to learn how to make Wordpress templates/skins/themes) the installation seemed to keep stopping at Step 2.

I let my computer stay on Step 2 for nearly 3 hours hoping that that was the standard time it took to install the sample data. No, my computer isn’t a super slow piece of junk, either.

Getting sick of waiting (after a couple of hours), I would then hit the refresh button on my browser (it happened in both IE6 and FireFox) which would say there is POST-DATA, etc and then refresh to say that it was already installed!!

Anyway with much mucking about and many, many hours of fiddling and cursing, I was able to realise that:

• my local WordPress installation worked
• I had to find a way to get that elusive password
  

After even more hours of fiddling and cursing, I did it, and then promptly created a tutorial (which I have now un-published, out of embarrassment on how bad it is) on how I did it then found a fantastic tutorial (and waaaaayyyyyyy easier one) at:

http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/

Fantastic tutorial and I would say a 'lifesaver' to many!!! :)