Out, Damn’d Quote!
In which a single, misplaced apostrophe in a PHP file breaks WordPress and results in the dread White Screen of Death. I subsequently murder the King of Scotland.
Read MoreWordPress in Ubuntu
So, um, where it says “For automatic updates to occur, the folder and all its files and subfolders must be owned by www-data.” … This is REALLY. EFFING. IMPORTANT.
Read MoreWordPress in Windows: Part Two
If we did everything right, we now see the initial installation screen for WordPress. If you do, congratulations; WordPress is installed and running locally on your desktop or laptop.
Read MoreWordPress in Windows
Thus I take pen to paper (er, rather, keyboard to LibreOffice Writer) to help elucidate how to go about setting up and installing WordPress locally on your own computer.
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