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I’m having a hard time trying to understand this. I have installed Ubuntu, installed XAMPP, created FTP server, the data base, installed WordPress and now I should install WooCommerce plugins and themes for my website but it keeps asking for a hosting and FTP credentials I don’t have, since I don’t want to hire any until my website is finished. What do I do next? How do I get WordPress to install everything and use my computer as the website server?
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Uhm, you’re trying to get a local development environment on your Windows?
Just download XAMPP for Windows and run the install. You don’t need to install Ubuntu at all.
After install, there’s a XAMPP GUI you use to start/stop apache and mysql. Now when you go to http://localhost in your browser, you’ll see the server is running.
You also don’t need FTP if you’re just developing on your local computer. You just open the folder c:/xampp/htdocs folder and drag your files in.
I like this guide for setting up WP on Ubuntu.
Check folders and files permssion, you have to make sure that Apache has writing and reading permits on all your WordPress installation.
If you haven’t give permission, WordPress check for FTP connection, but you don’t need it.
If you have trouble after these step let me know
You mean for development purposes? Using your computer as an actual web server (i.e. one that others can access) would be both a security risk (if not set up correctly) and incredibly slow.
Based on what you’ve said, however, you’re just having issues installing plugins. That’s due to you needing to add a line of code into your wp-config.php file.
Add this above the line that says “That’s all, stop editing! Happy publishing.”:
`define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’);`
You’ll then be able to install plugins/themes via WP-Admin without it asking for hosting/ftp credentials.
Or just use WP Local