Since I use a Mac, after downloading, I’ll mount the DMG file and drag the app into my Applications directory. Install it like you would any other application. Select the appropriate flavor of AMPPS, depending on your operating system If you’re a Linux user, you’ll need to select between the 32bit or 64bit packages. Select the appropriate download depending on your operating system. The download is a few hundred megabytes, so it may take a while on a slower connection. The latest version (at the time this tutorial was last updated) is 3.6. Step 1: Download and Install AMPPSįor our purposes, we’ll avoid the “PHP Dev Package” and download the latest version of AMPPS. Instructions may differ slightly for non-Mac users, but the core concepts are the same. While I use a Mac, note that AMPPS is also supported on Windows and Linux. That’s what some of the As, the Ps, and the Ms stand for in these acronyms. It’s similar to packages like MAMP and XAMPP in that in includes all of the things you need to run WordPress: PHP (the programming language), MySQL (the database), and Apache (the web server). I use a free software package called AMPPS. There are plenty of ways to install WordPress on your local machine.
