Comments on: How to set up WordPress locally on your Mac OS X

By: casey

casey — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:42:32 +0000

Thanks for the info great post.

I also found this post helpful as it lists a good application for mySQL admin

thanks again

By: mayank

mayank — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:31:20 +0000

Hey! Well, you’ve setup WordPress locally, so that means its available locally only… so only you can check that site.
Now, in order to move it to a live location, you’ll need to buy web-hosting and then move over.
you can choose a webhost from one of these companies http://wordpress.org/hosting/

and then follow these tutorials to move over the blog from local to live location -

http://blogdesignstudio.com/web-design/10-steps-to-clone-wordpress-blog-to-another-location-for-wordpress-design-development/

http://blogdesignstudio.com/wordpress-tutorials/8-steps-to-make-wordpress-test-location-live/

By: L. Smith

L. Smith — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:25:58 +0000

Great post and really helpful!

To you Mayank or other people reading this, how do I make wordpress.org changes to a blog permanent. I finally was able to install wordpress on my mac and can make changes via my browser. But when I go to the blog’s URL/site, they aren’t there. Am I doing something wrong or missing something?

Or is using wordpress locally JUST a way to test things out before going to the wordpress.com site and making the actual changes?

By: brad

brad — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:19:07 +0000

Thanks. This post is kind of old, but it was helpful. I was stuck, and I found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10fbwScPMtQ&feature=related and it helped me get everything working. I thought I would post it here for anybody that does better learning visually.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:14:49 +0000

Seems nice, easy and clear, but this is just not working for me. Steps 1 & 2 were completed, but in Step 3 my browser shows a 404 error with when trying to connect to http://localhost:8888/wp-admin/install.php.

However, if I try to access http://localhost:8889/wp-admin/install.php, Firefox asks me what I want to do with file install.php. I can open it with an external app or save it, but I cannot see it.

I’ve tried editing wp-config.php to this:
/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost:8889′);

but no dice. If anyone has some insights as to what the problem could be, I’m all ears. :)

By: AJvK

AJvK — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:07:28 +0000

Funny thing is, after a good nights sleep, the darn thing worked. wp-config.php is set to localhost:8888, and the WordPress settings to machinename.local:8888

By: mayank3825

mayank3825 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:57:38 +0000

well that has to do with the local setup of the computer. I guess if you'll give the IP address of your computer to the other network members then they will be able to see the wordpress in that local network. It will happen because your computer now acts as a server. Try that once and see if it works.

By: AJvK

AJvK — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:11:56 +0000

This is great. Tried this about a year and a half ago, but couldn't get it to work back then. This short walkthrough did the trick though.
One question though: how do make a locally installed WordPress Blog available to other computers in the samen local network? I tried changing localhost in wp-config.php and WP settings to computername.local:8888 or IPaddress:8888 without success – the best luck I've had so far was a text-only view of the main page, but every link failed cause it was sent to localhost…

By: rayray

rayray — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:37:03 +0000

Thanks for breaking it down in detail.

By: Autodactyl

Autodactyl — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:42:13 +0000

Cool. Going to try this out tonight.