Title: Apache?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Apache?

 *  [jewlz442](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jewlz442/)
 * (@jewlz442)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apache-1/)
 * Wondering if WordPress will work on an Apache server.
 * If so, could someone give me a walkthrough of how this works?
 * Thanks very much

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 *  [planetthoughtful](https://wordpress.org/support/users/planetthoughtful/)
 * (@planetthoughtful)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apache-1/#post-328458)
 * The minimum (and maximum) you need to run WordPress is a web server (Apache, 
   IIS, a couple of others), PHP (the scripting language in which WordPress is written)
   and MySQL (the backend database).
 * If you’re intending to run it on a local machine, there are prepackaged installations
   available for both Windows and Linux (see [WAMP](http://www.wampserver.com/en/index.php)
   and use your Lixux flavor’s package manager, if using Linux, to download LAMP)
   that make setting up the environment relatively painless.
 * Once installed, download the WordPress package from this site, uncompress it 
   into a directory, and follow the install instructions.
 * You may have something of a learning curve involved, but it’s probably best if
   you ask specific questions where you experience problems, rather than anyone 
   attempting to address everything you might possibly need or want to know about
   all parts of that environment.
 * If, by the way, you’re looking to host it on a remote web server, there are many
   that offer Apache / PHP / MySQL services, and quite a number that have automatic
   or requestable install utilities for WordPress.

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