This tutorial highlights how to create a local WordPress website with XAMPP in a few simple steps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To host your website on the web requires you to choose a hosting provider<\/a> which will provide you with a server to store your website files. However, you can host “websites” locally, on your own computer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Unlike the aforementioned, with this method, only your computer and those connected in its network (if any) would be able to access the web pages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Software such as XAMPP <\/a>and Laragon <\/a>would enable us to host our WordPress website in a local environment – offline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What is XAMPP?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n XAMPP is an abbreviation, which stands for Cross-platform (X), Apache (A), MariaDB (M), PHP (P) and Perl (P). <\/p>\n\n\n\n A typical web server needs a web server application, a database and a scripting language to function. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hence, XAMPP’s Apache (webserver application), MariaDB (a database) and PHP (scripting language) make it easy for you to set up a local server. <\/p>\n\n\n