Installing AMPPS to Run WordPress on Windows PC

Installing AMPPS to Run WordPress on Windows PC has the advantage of getting a Control Panel somewhat like cPanel plus itself is a good resource of LAMP CMS. AMPPS is actually a software stack of Apache, Mysql, PHP, Perl, Python and proprietary Softaculous auto installer with a GUI for your desktops and servers. I repeat – for Servers too. Its Free. Installing AMPPS to Run WordPress is really more easier than we had with age old XAMPP we used to install WordPress with.

Installing AMPPS to Run WordPress : Forewords

Right now we will be installing AMPPS to Run WordPress on Windows PC. At today night we will install AMPPS to Run WordPress on LAMP server! The urls of the resources for AMPPS are mentioned here :

• You need to download AMPPS following this URL for Installing AMPPS to Run WordPress on Windows PC
• Some Basics on LAMP Server

AMPPS can run on Mac too. There is a separate version.

Steps for Installing AMPPS to Run WordPress on Windows PC

Download  AMPPS and Install on Windows. Its easy. When you run AMPPS for the first time make sure your Internet connection is active. You will get an Serverside panel like this :

You need MySQL, PHP, Apache to run. This is not your control panel to install WordPress. You will get the control panel at :

http://localhost/ampps-admin

You can basically install WordPress in two ways :

1. In our old way of manually configuring and installing WordPress which we did since XAMPP is available.

2. Second way to Run WordPress is using their Scripts :

AMPPS is quite supportive ! Now you can follow their wiki for completion of installation of WordPress along with Video.