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We all know that Wordpress is a free and open source Content Management System  (CMS), based on PHP and MySQL. It is the most easiest tool to create a Blog or a Website.  Today, I am going to show you how to manually configure your wordpress with xampp web server. Before we begin, make sure that xampp web server should be install on your Windows OS. 1. Goto  https://wordpress.org/download/  and click on download button to download latest version of wordpress. Click to zoom this image 2. Once downloaded, extract wordpress. Click to zoom this image 3. Place the wordpress folder to htdocs folder of xampp. Click to zoom this image 4. Click on START (Windows Logo) and then click to start xampp control panel. Click to zoom this image 5. Start Apache and MySQL services and then, click on Admin button. If you got an error that Apache won't start, then please check my post Fix Apache error in xampp . Click to zoom this image 6. On phpM...

After Installing xampp (on windows), if you get "Apache" won't start then here the guideline you need to check. Click to zoom this image Please check the error log. Here, port 443 is taken by VMWare daemon. Either you have to change this port no. in VMWare or assigned a different port no. for Apache in xampp. I have tried to change port no. in VMWare. Click to zoom this image Click to zoom this image Open VMWare Workstation. Goto Edit and then click on Preferences . Click to zoom this image Now click on Shared VMs on the left window pane and then click on Change Settings button. Click to zoom this image On the next pop-up window, click on Disable Sharing, HTTPS box will active to change port number. Click to zoom this image Now change its port number other than 443 and click on OK button and close VMWare Workstation. Click to zoom this image Now open xampp and click Start button to run Apache services. You are do...