Wordpress Offline

Ice Globe

Ice Globe

Ice Globe

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I'd like to setup a wordpress portfolio website and be able to develop a theme and test it before having to buy a domain and provide hosting. This would ultimately provide an offline test environment for future changes and would enable updates to be quickly switched over to the live website once running.

I've tried setting up Ubuntu in VirtualBox and installing the core requirements for a localhost but my lack of experience with Ubuntu is playing havoc, even following the simplest guides I'm feeling behind when it comes to the command line entries. So despite lots of attempts I can't get the wordpress even functioning.

Otherwise I'd be looking to set something up on my windows 7 system in the hope that it doesn't interfere or disrupt the system.

I've heard of BitNami which offers both a virtual machine or native stack claiming to be self-contained allowing an offline wordpress.

Otherwise I've heard mention of both XAMPP and WAMP as potential other options although I'm not certain on their compatibility with windows 7 according to some dated guides.

Anybody have any experience with the above or have any further recommendations for a completely contained offline server?
 
Recently I had to build a virtual server in VMWare Player. for a University assignment and fully document it all so someone could build it from scratch, from downloading the Ubuntu Server image to running Wordpress on it.

Because it's a Uni assignment, I don't really feel comfortable handing it out, but if you send me a message in trust I'll be happy to help you on Skype/MSN with the bits you're stuck on. :)
 
I use XAMPP for offline development on Windows 7 and never had any issue. Just download it and go, couldn't be easier.
 
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