Oh readers, if only you could see me now. You’d be looking at a guy with three day stubble on his face, a pile of junk food in his stomach and a half-finished Wordpress website sitting on his hard drive starting a daunting article for KaranGoel that he has avoided for several hours. You’d be looking at a guy who managed to set up a local host on his PC, uploaded Wordpress to it and developed a site as though it was live on the internet. I’ve been doing quite a few posts about blogging lately but this one take a step outside the amateur ‘how-to’s I’ve done. This article is inspired by the website I’m building that’s due to be launched in a month or so – and it’s not for tech newbies, this guide. http://www.karangoel.in/2009/10/26/host-a-wordpress-blog-on-your-own-computer-locally/
Good site for techies, yes. I'm not much of a techy myself, but why would I ever want to host on my own computer. Couldn't I just create a different file directory, edit that, then when its all how I like it, copy it over to my "real" directory? I don't know - I know many will appreciate your post though - props for that.
Good tutorial. I am using WampServer to install wordpress on my local system. Just took 2-3 minute to install wordpress.
Look at this: Portable Wordpress: wordpress-portable.webnode.com WP-Portable includes: WordPress 2.8 Apache 2.2.11 PHP 5.2.8 MySQL 5.0.24a only unzip and run!
There you have it! Updated to version 2.8.5. Though, I must remember you that WP-Portable is intended to local development & testing, not production environments. Hope you guys enjoy it as much as I do.
Why would anyone want to host their site on their own machine/system/server when you can just rent out a server or get shared hosting with a very low price and absolutely no pain and worry? Well, i don't think its worth to host your site on your own Pc considering the cost, trouble to be taken, security risks, downtime and bandwidth problems.
What cost? It's free. It's also a learning tool. If you f* up, you can quickly reload the OS. In a datacenter, it'll take you awhile and you'll probably get charged for it. Plus you have complete control over a home server where you're limited to what the host or datacenter offers with a leased box. I've got the best of both worlds. My datacenter is about 5 miles from my house. I can go in there and do what I need without issue. Plus it's my hardware.
offline web design/coding/Testing. no internet connection required to test your changes and you can verify the results very faster.