How To | Host a Website On Your Own Home Computer

In as Few Words as Possible:

Yes, your computer can be a webserver! You can do this with just about any computer. Like an old laptop, your current main computer, or even a raspberry pi! This is how you would do it on a Windows machine.

• Install XAMPP
• Start Apache and MySQL services
• Download the .zip folder of Wordpress
• In XAMPP, click Explorer
• Unzip Wordpress into the htdocs folder

WordPress is now installed

• IN FILE EXPLORER: navigate to the WordPress installation
• Open "wp-config-sample.php" and scroll to the following lines.

• Change the database ('database_name_here') name to match that of your database you created
• Change the username to "root"
• Change the password to nothing. ex: [""]
• Save as a new file, removing the "sample". "wp-config.php"
• Open a web browser
• Navigate to localhost in the URL
• Open PHPmyAdmin
• Make a new database for the WordPress website

The WordPress site is now ready.

• In your Web Browser, navigate to "LocalHost" once again.
• You should now see your WordPress Template.

Happy Blogging!

If you have any questions please feel free to ask in the comment section.