Setting up a Local WordPress Environment Everyone has their own method for building and hosting their WordPress site. One easy solution is building it locally then exporting it to your live server. Chris is going to show you a great solution for both Mac and PC, that lets you work locally and helps get your site up and running quickly and simply.

1. Setting up a Local WordPress
Environment
By Chris La Nauze
Get your WordPress site up and running quickly and simply.

2. What are Local Environments?
A local environment is the replication of Web
Server, locally on your computer, be that on a
Windows Apple, or Linux machine or an Network
Attached Storage Drive that support’s web servers .

3. Why local?
Security
● Ports and firewalls don't interfere
with code.
● Develop in a safer environment
rather than something that is
connected to the internet.
Testing
● Plugins
● Themes
● Code

4. Why local?
Resources
● Processing Power
● Speed
● Hard drive size
Connectivity
● Airplane mode
● Ability to work anywhere

5. Why local?
Experiments
● Troubleshooting
● Hack Recovery
Clients
● Show designs and training
Money
$ Cost savings.

6. Tips
Stop emails before uploading to a live
server
Save old versions of things.
Previous copies of client sites,
● Either before major change or
new site.
Full access to the entire stack.
Unlike on some cloud accounts the
Client is on a gated access like
WPEngine or its been Jail host
Optimise images and whole site
quickly and easily compared to
uploading and downloading.
Advantage

7. WordPress Server Requirements
https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/
To run WordPress we recommend
your host supports:
● PHP version 7 or greater
● MySQL version 5.6 or greater
OR MariaDB version 10.0 or
greater
● HTTPS support

8. What is needed?
Linux Apache MySQL PHP - LAMP
Linux Nginx MySQL PHP - LEMP
Mac Apache MySQL PHP - MAMP
Windows Apache MySQL PHP - WAMP
Cross-Platform Apache MariaDB PHP - XAMPP
● Desktop Server Limited but easy. $ pro version
Virtualisation - (VMWARE)
Containers, Docker, Vagrant, Varying Vagrant
Vagrants
● Local - Flywheel
The main benefit of MAMP, WAMP
XAMPP etc, is that it leaves all your
default system settings alone,
sandboxing your development
environment.
It also allows you to easily turn on
and off services.

9. Desktop Server
1. Download
2. Unzip or Mount
3. Install
4. Run
5. Decide on your test domain name
6. Finish WordPress Setup
System Requirements
● Windows Vista, 7, 8
● Macintosh OS X 10.6.X to 10.12.X.
● At least 512 megabytes of RAM
● At least 500 megabytes of free hard
drive space for installation.
Desktop Server
https://serverpress.com

10. DESKTOP SERVER

11. Note: Must Allow Firewall access to mysql.exe and httpd.exe in windows defender.

12. Backup & Migrate
More found here:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/backup/

13. Videos, Links and other information
for this presentation can be found
At https://chrislanauze.com/
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