Local development setup (Local, XAMPP) in Wordpress - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to start the Apache server in XAMPP control panel.

Wordpress

Click the [1] button next to Apache to start the server.

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ARestart

BStop

CStart

DConfigure

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Common Mistakes

Clicking 'Stop' instead of 'Start'

Confusing Apache with MySQL service

To run your WordPress site locally, you need to start the Apache server by clicking the Start button in XAMPP.

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medium

Complete the code to access the local WordPress site in your browser.

Wordpress

Open your browser and go to http://[1]/ to see your WordPress site.

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Awordpress.local

B127.0.0.1

C192.168.1.1

Dlocalhost

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Common Mistakes

Using external IP addresses

Typing 'wordpress.local' without setup

The address localhost points your browser to your own computer where the local server runs.

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hard

Fix the error in the wp-config.php file to connect to the local database.

Wordpress

define('DB_NAME', '[1]');

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Aroot

Bwordpress_db

Clocalhost

Dwp_database

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Common Mistakes

Using 'root' which is a username

Using 'localhost' which is a host

The DB_NAME constant should be set to the name of your WordPress database, such as wordpress_db.

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hard

Complete the code to set the database username and password in wp-config.php.

Wordpress

define('DB_USER', '[1]');
define('DB_PASSWORD', '');

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Aroot

Cadmin

Dpassword123

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Common Mistakes

Using 'admin' as username

Setting a password when none is set

By default, XAMPP uses root as the database username and an empty string "" as the password.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a new database in phpMyAdmin using SQL.

Wordpress

CREATE DATABASE [1] CHARACTER SET [2] COLLATE [3];

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Awordpress_db

Butf8mb4

Cutf8mb4_general_ci

Dlatin1

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Common Mistakes

Using latin1 which is outdated

Wrong collation causing character issues

Use wordpress_db as the database name, utf8mb4 as the character set for full Unicode support, and utf8mb4_general_ci as the collation for case-insensitive sorting.