Spread Linux with a chick

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Hey, you! Why don’t you try Ubuntu?

Test post right from Google Docs :))

Test post right from Google Docs :))

Random Tech Blah Blah …

There are quite a few tutorials/howtos on how to install LAMP + WordPress locally on your Ubuntu box so I won’t go into any that, I just want to point out a few things I consider very important.

First of all my apache listen only on 127.0.0.1:80, so this way you can be sure that it is available only on the localhost. MySQL will already listen on localhost only by default so you won’t need to touch that.

Make sure that you install phpMyAdmin. Believe me it’s much better than struggling with the command line tool.

You can use the root MySQL user for your WordPress, no need to create another one … LoL you are on localhost.

Make sure that you make the “wp-content/upload” directory writable, so you can upload/modify stuff, all you could just make the whole /var/www/wordpress .

Installing WordPress locally has tons of benefits, because you can test out plugins, write new stuff, etc without messing with your *real life* installation, which is pretty cool.