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How to Install WordPress on your Windows Computer Using WAMP

Last updated on December 5th, 2018 by Editorial Staff
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How to Install WordPress on your Windows Computer Using WAMP

Do you want to install WordPress on your Windows computer locally? Working with WordPress on your computer allows you to test new WordPress features, learn how to develop with WordPress, and make websites before migrating them to the live server. In this article, we will show you how to properly install WordPress on Windows using WAMP.

Install WordPress on WAMP

Why You Should Install WordPress on Windows?

Installing WordPress locally on your computer gives you a testing environment that doesn’t affect your live website or blog. A WordPress install on your computer is also referred to as local server or localhost.

Normally WordPress developers use local WordPress install to develop their plugins and themes. Beginner users can also install WordPress on their computers to learn WordPress, test new WordPress theme and plugins, and experiment without affecting a live website.

Note: If you install WordPress locally on Windows, then the only person who can see that site is you. If you want to make a website that is available to the public, then you need to have a domain name and web hosting. We recommend that you follow this guide on how to start a WordPress blog.

That being said, let’s take a look at how to properly install WordPress on Windows using WAMP.

What is WAMP?

WAMP, is a compilation of Apache web server, PHP and MySQL bundled for Windows computers.

All of them are separate open source software. However, installing them separately is not quite easy even for experienced users. Software like WAMP allow you to easily install them and have a working local environment within minutes.

Step 1. Installing WAMP on Windows Computer

First, you need to download the WAMP software and install it on your computer. Simply go to the WampServer website and click on the ‘Start Using WampServer’ button.

Start using wampserver

It will take you to the downloads section. You’ll see two versions here: WampServer 32 bits and WampServer 64 bits. You need to select the WampServer version that matches the operating system type of your Windows computer.

Download wampserver

To find out whether you are using 32 or 64-bit operating system, go to Control Panel » System and Security » System in your computer. There you will be able to see your operating system type.

Finding operating system type in Windows 10

Once downloaded, you can click on the wampserver execution file to run the installation. Make sure that you carefully follow the instructions on the installation screen.

Install WAMP

During the installation process, you need to define the location for the web browser. By default, it will be Internet Explorer. You can change that to Google Chrome or any other web browser by locating it in the Program Files of your computer.

Once installed, you can launch the WampServer to continue.

Step 2. Setting Up a Database for Local WordPress Setup

Next thing you need to do is to create a blank MySQL database. On launching WAMP, you’ll see a green WampServer icon at the bottom right corner of your screen along with other icons. Simply click on it and then click on phpMyAdmin (a web based application to manage MySQL databases).

Note: If the WampServer icon is red or yellow, then it means the services (Apache, MySQL, PHP) are not running. You need to start the services by clicking on the icon before setting up the database.

phpMyAdmin

It will take you to the phpMyAdmin login screen on your web browser. Simply enter the username: root and leave the password field blank. These are the default credentials to login into your localhost phpMyAdmin.

Login phpMyAdmin

Click on the ‘Go’ button to continue.

Once logged in, you need to click on Databases in phpmMyAdmin to create a new database for WordPress. It will ask you to choose a name for your new database (we named ours test_db). After that click on the ‘Create’ button.

Create a database

Your database is ready which means you can now install WordPress on localhost.

Step 3. Installing WordPress on Windows Using WAMP

The next thing you need to do is download the latest version of WordPress from the WordPress.org website. It will download as a zip file.

Download WordPress

You need to extract the zip file and copy the ‘wordpress’ folder.

Extract WordPress

Now you need to navigate to the folder where you installed WAMP.

In this tutorial, we installed WAMP in C:\wamp64, so we’ll refer to that folder going forward. But keep in mind, it may be different for you depending on where you installed the program.

Paste the ‘wordpress’ folder into the C:\wamp64\www folder.

Paste WordPress folder to www

You can rename the ‘wordpress’ folder to anything you want, such as mysite, testsite, etc. This will be the URL of your local WordPress site, so be sure to choose something you’ll remember easily.

For the sake of this tutorial, we renamed the folder from wordpress to mysite.

Next, you can open the web browser and go to http://localhost/mysite/

First, it’ll ask you to select a language and then show you the database setup information. Once you have read it carefully, go ahead and click on the ‘Let’s go’ button to continue.

Database information

After that, you need to enter your database details like database name, username, password, host, and table prefix.

The database name will be the one that you entered in the previous step. In our case, we called it ‘test_db’. The username will be ‘root’, and you can leave the password field blank. You can also leave the database host and table prefix as-is.

Enter database details

Next, click on the ‘Submit’ button and WordPress will create a configuration file for you in the backend.

On the next screen, you will see a success message stating that WordPress is connected to your database, and you can proceed with the installation.

Go ahead and click on the ‘Run the installation’ button to continue.

Run the installation

It will take you to the welcome screen for WordPress. You need to add a title for your new WordPress website, choose an admin username, enter a strong password, and provide an admin email address.

Once you’re ready, click on the ‘Install WordPress’ button.

Welcome screen for WordPress

After the installation process is complete, you’ll see a success message. In the background, WordPress has created new tables in your database and it’s ready to use.

You can then proceed to your WordPress dashboard by clicking on the ‘Log In’ button.

Log in button

Congratulations, you have successfully installed WordPress on a Windows computer using WAMP.

Step 4. Enabling Pretty Permalinks in WAMP

The new version of WordPress doesn’t break your local site on changing the permalinks setting.

However if you still see the ‘page not found’ error on your pages after changing the permalinks from Settings » Permalinks in WordPress, then simply follow our guide on how to enable custom permalinks in WAMP.

Step 5. Troubleshooting WAMP Issues

WAMP is quite easy to use even for beginners. However, if you are unable to get it running, then the following troubleshooting tips would help.

Fixing the WAMP Skype Conflict

If you have Skype installed and running, then WampServer may not be able to work properly due to a conflict with Skype. The conflict is caused by both Apache and Skype using the same port 80. There is a simple fix for this problem.

Open Skype and go to Tools » Options. This will bring up a dialog box, from here you need to click on Advanced and then Connections.

Fixing the WAMP Skype conflict

Uncheck the box that says Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections. Save options and restart Skype.

Install Visual C++ Redistributable

WAMP needs Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 to run. If you don’t have it installed on your computer, then you can download and install it from the Microsoft website.

Bonus: Migrating from WAMP to Live

We’ve also written a separate guide on how to move WordPress from WAMP local server to a live site. Hopefully, you’ll find it helpful when you are ready to deploy your local site to production.

Having a local server environment is great for learning and testing purposes. But remember, if you want to start a WordPress blog for other people to see, then you do not need to install WordPress on your computer. You need to install WordPress on a WordPress hosting provider.

We hope this article helped you learn how to install WordPress on Windows using WAMP. You may also want to see our guide on 18 most important things you need to do after installing WordPress.

If you liked this article, then please subscribe to our YouTube Channel for WordPress video tutorials. You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook.

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  1. muya chris says:
    Apr 20, 2017 at 7:40 pm

    thank you for this article

    Reply
  2. young baykay says:
    Apr 20, 2017 at 11:15 am

    i thought this was to install WordPress as an app on windows not knowing its just another way of creating a WordPress site. buh i have to say that its really interesting and i learn’t something new and the whole process went well..(thumbs up)

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Apr 20, 2017 at 12:47 pm

      Glad you found it helpful, don’t forget to join us on Twitter for more WordPress tips and tutorials.

      Reply
  3. Miha says:
    Apr 19, 2017 at 2:25 am

    This has made my day. Thank you!

    Reply
  4. Hena says:
    Apr 17, 2017 at 9:44 am

    Oh!! you are awesome!! thank you very much :)

    Reply
  5. Abhishek sharma says:
    Apr 15, 2017 at 6:13 pm

    Thanku very much it was very helpful.

    Reply
  6. Diego Marrs-Segura says:
    Apr 13, 2017 at 8:08 pm

    What if you already have a WordPress account and site but you’re still required to fill in the installation form?

    Reply
  7. Jean Tildesley says:
    Apr 12, 2017 at 9:52 am

    Very helpful article, but when I got to setting up a database for WordPress and clicked on phpmyadmin as instructed, it opened up a localhost page with no content. Can you help please?
    Regards,

    Reply
  8. Judy H says:
    Apr 8, 2017 at 4:53 pm

    Everything installed correctly and I set up a practice web page. After working on it for awhile I left it for several days. When I attempted to log in to the WP admin site for the test web page, it wouldn’t recognize my password. Any ideas on why this happened or how to recover/reset the password?

    Thanks!

    Reply
  9. Perfect ttorial says:
    Apr 6, 2017 at 2:17 pm

    thank you very much for this perfect tutorial….all installin done…..now will try the creation

    Reply
  10. Sarah Alyea says:
    Mar 27, 2017 at 9:11 pm

    Everything worked fantastic. Until I tried to upload the Divy theme and DivyBuilder plugin.

    Received this message for both: The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.

    What to do? Any advice?

    Reply
  11. tommyt says:
    Mar 23, 2017 at 11:39 am

    awesome post,
    worked like clockwork,
    thanks so much for this great post.
    Tom

    Reply
  12. Zaeem Shah says:
    Mar 22, 2017 at 7:17 pm

    your tutorial was amazing before this tutorial i didnt know about even how to download wordpress on local host after that i am able to download and the main thing is that i am able and got expert in designing a professional website by wordpress thanksss aloot u r doing good job God bless you

    Reply
  13. Shana says:
    Mar 19, 2017 at 7:16 pm

    Followed directions and I am getting a

    “No webpage was found for the web address: http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
    Search Google for localhost phpmyadmin
    HTTP ERROR 404
    error.”
    any ideas?

    Reply
    • Shana says:
      Mar 19, 2017 at 10:03 pm

      This problem is fixed.
      Had to change the port listeners in Apache httpd.conf to port 8080.
      There are 3 listeners to change.
      Also must change the port preference in >Tools>Use a port other than 80.
      Once clicked, it will automatically change it to 8080, or whatever port you have changed to. I suggest using 8080.

      Hope this helps!

      Reply
      • vasudevan says:
        Aug 12, 2017 at 1:57 am

        thanks! that helped me. you coul have also mentioned that the tools is accessed by right clicking the icon!

        Reply
  14. Bala says:
    Mar 18, 2017 at 2:06 am

    easy to follow the instruction, my test site on my desktop was up and running in 15 min. Thanks

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Mar 18, 2017 at 8:02 pm

      Hi Bala,

      Glad to hear that :) Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook for more WordPress tips and tutorials.

      Reply
  15. Philip Venable says:
    Mar 17, 2017 at 11:28 pm

    After Wamp installed I attempted to open phpMyAdmin and received this message in Chrome: This localhost page can’t be found

    No webpage was found for the web address: http://localhost/phpmyadmin
    HTTP ERROR 404

    Reply
    • Shana says:
      Mar 19, 2017 at 10:18 pm

      try changing the port in Apache.

      Reply
    • Claire says:
      Jun 10, 2017 at 9:07 am

      I am having this same error, any solutions yet please

      Reply
  16. Megha D R says:
    Mar 17, 2017 at 2:59 am

    It was very helpfull… The steps and links mentioned in the article are perfect….
    Thank you

    Reply
  17. EIRINI TZIMA says:
    Mar 11, 2017 at 4:58 pm

    Hello guys, great job!
    I followed your advice step by step up to this point: Now open your web browser and go to http://localhost/mysite/
    The WordPress database setup will start automatically.
    Although the http://localhost/mysite/ seems ok and shows that
    ndex of /mysite

    [ICO] Name Last modified Size Description
    [PARENTDIR] Parent Directory –
    [DIR] __MACOSX/ 2017-03-11 22:45 –
    [DIR] betheme-premium-word..> 2017-03-11 22:45 –
    Apache/2.4.23 (Win32) PHP/5.6.25 Server at localhost Port 80

    WordPress itself doesn’t start automatically so now i am stuck here.
    Any suggestions?
    Thank you so much in advance!
    BR,
    Eirini

    Reply
    • Shana says:
      Mar 19, 2017 at 9:59 pm

      I am having the same issue.
      Any ideas?

      Reply
    • Marc De Bodt says:
      Sep 12, 2017 at 8:59 am

      I’m also getting the same issue… :-(

      Reply
  18. Hanif Fadilah says:
    Mar 11, 2017 at 5:56 am

    Really useful tutorial, exactly what i was looking for, thank you very much :)

    Reply
  19. Cliff says:
    Mar 10, 2017 at 5:18 pm

    Fantastic tutorial and so easy to follow.

    Now to create my test website!!

    Thanks

    Reply
  20. Reg says:
    Feb 23, 2017 at 6:00 pm

    Can I lift a WordPress site I already have, along with its theme, widgets etc, and put that onto my local computer and then process that WordPress website into another theme. My main reason for having an interest in this is that when I tried to migrate my WordPress site to a new theme it went wrong. Thankfully I had backed it up and so I could just do a restore. But I would like to move the content into a different theme.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Feb 23, 2017 at 9:14 pm

      Hi Reg,

      Yes, you can. This is one of the main reasons people install WordPress on their computers to work on their themes before it goes live. Please see our guide on how to move a live WordPress site to local server

      Reply
  21. Sirmee says:
    Feb 22, 2017 at 3:10 pm

    Thank you so much for the good work. it was easy and straight to the point. More grease to your elbow

    Reply
  22. Stewart says:
    Feb 21, 2017 at 7:18 pm

    Fantastic guide. Simple and easy to follow. I now have a test WP site. Many thanks

    Reply
  23. Olman says:
    Feb 21, 2017 at 1:47 pm

    I solved my problems!

    Note that my first problem was that when copying wordpress into wamp, I only copied wp-admin and not the entire wordpress folder.

    The second problem (“Error establishing connection”) was the the form had auto-filled a password (“Password”) and so was actually not blank.

    Reply
  24. Olman says:
    Feb 21, 2017 at 1:33 pm

    I am receiving the following error message:

    “Error establishing a database connection”

    Any advice on correcting this?

    Reply
  25. Gary says:
    Feb 21, 2017 at 10:50 am

    I am trying to upload a new theme from a zip file and keep getting this error “The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.” I opened the php.ini from within Wampserver php tools and changed it to 25MB but still same error. Please help

    Reply
  26. Ed says:
    Feb 16, 2017 at 1:51 pm

    Thank you for this article. Very helpful and informational!

    We want to build a WordPress-based Intranet. Is this the process for installing WordPress on a local server first, then using the All-In-One Intranet plugin after?

    Reply
  27. omar says:
    Feb 14, 2017 at 11:21 am

    I don’t have WAMP or anything like that, but I have apache, php and mysql installed and it worked for development like that for a while already and it works fine, but when I am trying to install WordPress 4.7.2 on step 2 i get the HTTP 500 status.

    The 127.0.0.1 page isn’t working

    127.0.0.1 is currently unable to handle this request.
    HTTP ERROR 500

    I have PHP 7.0.8.

    Any thoughts?

    Reply
  28. Collins says:
    Feb 12, 2017 at 12:12 pm

    This was helpful. But i have a problem. Anytime i tried access my dashboard (wp-admin). There is always a note. It says “Sorry you are not allowed to access this page”. I need your help to ratify the situation. Please

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Feb 12, 2017 at 3:40 pm

      Hi Collins,

      First, make sure you are accessing /wp-admin/ and not a page inside wp-admin like /wp-admin/some-page.php. If the problem persists, then follow our WordPress troubleshooting guide to figure out whats causing the issue and how to fix it.

      Reply
  29. Kevin says:
    Feb 4, 2017 at 11:20 am

    Great Tutorial, but i have a quick question.

    How would i set up a local copy of a wordpress site from a backup? ive offered to help with someones site and i want to install a copy locally which will include a ‘full’ site, webpages and database, to help make the development alot quicker than just uploading stuff to the online test server every time.

    Reply
  30. Nev Lime says:
    Jan 28, 2017 at 4:35 am

    This was a great help

    Thank you

    Reply
  31. Pedro says:
    Jan 23, 2017 at 7:52 pm

    When I click on phpMyAdmin, it asks for a username and password. Where do I get this information from?
    Thank you.
    Pedro

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jan 25, 2017 at 5:03 pm

      Hi Pedro,

      You can get this information your hosting account’s cPanel dashboard.

      Reply
  32. Lyle Peterson says:
    Jan 23, 2017 at 12:33 pm

    Where does the installation program look for VCRUNTIME140.dll? I have it on my computer but the program won’t start because that .dll is not installed.

    Reply
  33. Alpheus says:
    Jan 16, 2017 at 7:29 am

    hello guys, i find it hard to download the wordpress any one with a clue pls.

    Reply
  34. sean burns says:
    Jan 14, 2017 at 7:22 pm

    I’m stuck here-
    Installing WordPress on Windows with WAMP
    Download a copy of WordPress from WordPress.org. Extract the zip file and copy the wordpress folder. Go to C:\wamp\www (when I paste this to a browser nothing happens) and paste wordpress folder there. You can rename the wordpress folder to anything you want for example mysite, wpbeginner, etc.

    Reply
    • Alexander Stevenson says:
      Feb 1, 2017 at 11:54 pm

      I hope you solved you problem by now, but in case anyone else has an issue here’s what happened.

      I highly recommend against using a browser to access that. That is specifically storage space on your computer. If you go to My Computer you should see Local Disk (C:). This is what the C:\ means. When you open the disk (by double-clicking on it) you should see a list of folders such as Program Files, Windows, and wamp. Open the wamp folder and look for a folder named www. Open that folder, and then paste the wordpress folder in it.

      Reply
  35. Martina says:
    Jan 9, 2017 at 6:55 pm

    thanks a lottttttttt. Now I can make my web. I Love you guys.
    I don’t know why people can’t help, it does not matter I’m glad I found you. :)

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jan 10, 2017 at 3:20 am

      Hi Martina,

      You are welcome :) we are glad you find WPBeginner helpful. Don’t forget to join us on Twitter for more WordPress tips and tutorials.

      Reply
  36. Seth Solanki says:
    Nov 28, 2016 at 12:58 pm

    HI, I’ve installed WAMP64 and WordPress. I can add pages in WordPress but cannot edit them. I can create new pages and change themes but cannot add or edit any page content. Is this possible?

    Reply
  37. Carrie says:
    Nov 19, 2016 at 4:59 pm

    I have a stupid question. I took a beginners wordpress class which totally sucked!

    Anyway, they had me use Microsoft webmatrix instead of WAMP. The webmatrix does not work correctly. Could I install WAMP or must I now use MS webmatrix? If I do this, will I use the project I was working on for the class?

    I totally lost….

    Thanks

    Reply
  38. Younes Ouahrani says:
    Nov 19, 2016 at 9:19 am

    when i click phpmyadmin its shows that im not connected on the browser , any help guys ?

    Reply
  39. Poonam Paul says:
    Nov 16, 2016 at 1:25 pm

    My WAMP install went smoothly and created two databases correctly. There are 2 databases and 2 config.php files in my wordpress website. The path for both databases are example.com/httpdocs/wp-config.php and example.com/httpdocs/wordpress/wp-config.php. Both databases have different DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, butDB_HOST (IP address) is same.I install httpdocs folder into the www folder properly. I enter db_host in both databases are localhost.
    Now when i view the site and open localhost/wordpress/wp-admin, the error is…
    This site can’t be reached…localhost refused to connect…ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

    Reply
  40. Gobind Singh says:
    Nov 5, 2016 at 5:24 am

    Thanks Sir!! You made it very clear and simple.. I have been trying to do this from a long time. But today I found this article and did it in a flash. I’m really grateful. Thanks.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Nov 6, 2016 at 8:28 pm

      Glad you found it helpful :) Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook for more WordPress tips and tutorials.

      Reply
  41. Divine says:
    Nov 4, 2016 at 2:02 am

    You guys are the best..though I had issues installing my WAMPserver but I managed to fix it. Sincerely this article helped me as i was told by a friend to pay thousands of Nigeria naira before he can help me. More of these guys!!!

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Nov 5, 2016 at 12:17 am

      Glad you found it helpful. Don’t forget to join us on Twitter for more WordPress tips and tutorials.

      Reply
  42. Anatole says:
    Nov 3, 2016 at 8:39 pm

    You made it very clear and simple to follow. Worked a treat and I didn’t even need to watch a video online. Many thanks.

    Reply
  43. Alexander says:
    Oct 31, 2016 at 5:00 am

    Thanks for the effort you put into this tutorial. Finally my first wordpress test blog is running on wamp.

    Reply
  44. Geoffrey says:
    Oct 30, 2016 at 7:55 am

    My WAMP instal went smoothly (updated the Visial C++ packages) ..created a database called wordpress
    My wordpress instal into the www folder went smoothly

    When I open localhost/wordpress/wp=admin I see that the Twenty Fifteen theme is active.

    But wen I view the site or sample page….I don’t see any evidence that the css of the theme has been invoked…just a very plain looking page

    Yes, this is all new to me….I’ve missed something obvious I hope…what did I miss doing>

    Reply
  45. harish negi says:
    Oct 25, 2016 at 9:20 am

    how to test vaultpress backup in the local wordpress?

    Reply
  46. steph says:
    Oct 24, 2016 at 1:25 am

    hi, may i know how could actually installl phpMyAdmin? Where to get username and password to login in. Thanks

    Reply
  47. Sthe says:
    Oct 22, 2016 at 11:54 am

    Can I create a wp website while offline?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Oct 23, 2016 at 7:33 pm

      Yes you can. However, you may need an internet connection to get help or check out tutorials.

      Reply
  48. Jose Luis says:
    Oct 21, 2016 at 8:00 pm

    Hello, just thought i’d let you know that in order to access the localhost you can use root as user and leave the password field in blank.
    Thanx for this article ;-)

    Reply
  49. mikmoken says:
    Oct 6, 2016 at 12:48 am

    Thanks for this instructions and tutorials on how to install wordpress using wamp. It helps a lot for us beginners.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Oct 6, 2016 at 7:14 pm

      Hey mikmoken,

      Glad you found it useful :) You may also want to subscribe to our YouTube Channel for WordPress video tutorials.

      Reply
  50. MelR says:
    Oct 4, 2016 at 8:40 am

    Thanks guys at long last and 70 years of age I’ve achieved it! Thanks to you guys cheers!!

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Oct 5, 2016 at 10:24 am

      Hey @MeIR,

      We are glad you found it useful :) You may also want to subscribe to our YouTube Channel for WordPress video tutorials.

      Reply
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