Series Index: Local Environment

November 30, 2024

!Series: Local Environment Apache MariaDB OpenSSL PHP phpMyAdmin SQL WordPress

In this learn-along tutorial series, we will be setting up a local development environment from scratch on a Windows 11 machine, using Apache as our HTTP server. We will also use this development environment to run different experiments:

• Setting up a site running PHP 8 and a site running PHP 7 on the same server
• Installing MariaDB and phpMyAdmin in our server
• Installing WordPress on one of our sites

We will be doing this without using any external graphical user interfaces, but bear in mind that there are plenty of options available. These include XAMPP, Laragon, and Docker. However, I think it is useful to learn how to set this up yourself, since it gives you a better idea of what these tools are doing.

Series Index

• Part 1 – Development Environment Component
• Part 2 – Installing and Running Apache
• Part 3 – DNS Records and Virtual Sites
• Part 4 – Installing PHP
• Part 5 – Adding and Managing a Database
• Part 6 – Setting Up HTTPS
• Part 7 – Installing WordPress

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