
Make sure you grant all the Global Privileges from this page as ours will be admin user to we would need all the rights we can get. You will be presented with the interface as shown in below This page has a link to create user, click it. After that click on the “ Privileges” tab. For that you need to click on the database from left side database list. Next we will create a user for this database. Once you click create, a database will be created and it will be listed in the database list. Once you are on this page click on “Databases” link, it will open you interface to create database. To access this you just need to type in url your browser. We will setup one database and a user first using the PHPMYADMIN panel provided by XAMPP. Step 3: Setting up MySQL for WordPressĮvery WordPress site needs a MySQL database to run. You can test if XAMPP is running properly by visiting local url. I have only Apache and MySQL servers running as I need only this as of now. After installation is complete my control panel is like this This panel will have listing of services running on your machine and you can choose what to start, PID, Ports etc. Once its complete you will be asked to start the control panel. Installation may take 10-15 minutes depending up on hardware environment. Below image will show you what options I have chosen for installation. Simply follow the easy instructions during installations like choosing language, directory etc.

You just need to locate the downloaded exe file and run it. We need to execute it to start our installation of XAMPP.
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Once download is complete you will have an exe “xampp-win32-1.8.2-2-VC9-installer.exe”. The download size is aroud 102MB so need to be patient till it completes.

We will choose the “Installer” format/option suggested and most preferred. Step 1: Download XAMPP from the official siteįirst of all we will download XAMPP from the official site.
