Title: WordPress   Apache Server (localhost)
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress Apache Server (localhost)

 *  [pro_shine81](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pro_shine81/)
 * (@pro_shine81)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-apache-server-localhost/)
 * Hello everybody!
 * I am fairly new to the whole php/mysql thing and I am trying to install wordpress
   on my local machine to test it and create a nice design before I gonna upload
   it to a server and I can’t get it to run.
 * So far I have installed the apache server XAMPP (version 1.4.4 which everyone
   says works fine with wordpress). I have startet the server and created a wordpress
   database plus user and already editet the wp-config file.
 * When I try to open the install.php file I get lot’s of errors (includen <php…
   > tags. I think that something is not running because as I suppose the php-tags
   shouldn’t show up, right!?
 * Plus I am not sure where I have to place the wordpress files. So far I have placed
   the wordpress files in a folder called “blog” which is in my “xampp” folder (
   C:\appache\xampp\blog). Is this the right place or can I put the “blog” folder
   just into drive c (C:\blog)?
 * Can anyone help me out?
    Thanks a lot, Yours Phillipe

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-apache-server-localhost/#post-287176)
 * Follow this guide:
 * [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/)
 *  Thread Starter [pro_shine81](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pro_shine81/)
 * (@pro_shine81)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-apache-server-localhost/#post-287178)
 * Cheers that helped. I have had copied the wordpress folder into the wrong directory.
   Thanks!

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