![]() Welcome to the class site for the WordPress classes at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. If you have any questions or feel like I need to explain something more, please leave me a comment below. That’s about it, you now have a working local install of WordPress on your Mac! This app can be found in your Applications folder. Click on one and click “Start,” wait for them to turn green, and then visit your address again. If you restart, shut down, or you go to your local address in your browser and you get a “Cannot find the server” error, you need to open this up and make sure both Apache and MySQL are running. To manage it, click on the app, and head over to the “Manage Servers” tab: We are almost done! Notice this strange application that started after our BitNami install (see image to right). This will only be used by more advanced users who want to create/destroy tables or create a new database for a second install. The link that the second arrow is pointing to will take you to the PHPMyAdmin associated with your install. It acts and looks and works just like an install on or even a self hosted version. Your username and password is what you used to setup BitNami, on the “Create Admin” page during the install. When you click on the big “Access Bitnami WordPress Stack,” you will be taken to an address like this:Īnd since you’re home page is in the “wordpress” directory, it will automatically open the home page. It can be thought as the domain of your local site. Let’s first talk about the address of the site, which should be this: There are two important links on this page. Make sure to check the box that will automatically launch the WordPress stack, and click “Finish”! You will then be taken to this page: That is up to you!Īfter that screen, it will start the installation, which will take a few minutes. On the “BitNami Cloud Hosting,” you can choose to learn more about their cloud hosting service. If you choose the “custom” option on the SMTP page, you will have to know the host and port information, which is beyond the scope of this article. At the time of this writing, Gmail is the only supported provider for a quick setup. If you would like to do this (I recommend it), check the configure mail support box, and choose your provider. BitNami can set this up locally so that your WordPress site can send notifications (new comments, trackbacks, etc) to you, even though it is locally. SMTP, or “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol,” is the standard used to send mail over the internet. Your username and password are very important! We will use them later.Įnter you blog name, and we will move on to SMTP settings. On the “Create Admin account,” fill out the form with your information. On the “Installation folder,” The default should be /Applications/wordpress. On the “Select Components” page, make sure everything is checked. You will be presented a welcome screen and we can get on our way to having WordPress locally on our Mac. Open the app up ( Finder -> Applications -> BitNami WordPress), and select your language. Open the bad boy up and drag the BitNami app to your Applications folder. Head over to your Finder, and in the Downloads folder you will find a file named something along the lines of bitnami-wordpress-installer.dmg (.dmg is the file extension for disk image). A disk image is a single file or storage device containing the complete contents representing a data storage medium or device, such as a hard drive, tape drive, floppy disk, optical disc, or USB flash drive. This will download a disk image of the application to your computer. Head over to BitNami’s website and download the first option on the right. People that want to learn more about their computer.People wanting to edit their WordPress site when not connected to the internet.This tutorial will use Bitnami, which gives you a “full stack” (all of the things you need to get going) of helpers, so you don’t have to touch anything foreign on your computer. Mac users have a few different ways to install WP locally on their machine.
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