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ayo

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From: Peniche, Portugal

Registered: 2023-10-25

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Where should I install WordPress for local development?

I followed https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wordpress and installed it using pacman, but the article seems to be mainly for servers and the installation location is /usr/share/webapps/wordpress which by default I do not have permission to write to, and makes using it as a local development annoying.

Should I install/move it somewhere I own or change the permissions?

And if the better option it to move it, can I use pacman to install it at that other place?

Last edited by ayo (2023-10-25 17:41:59)

icar

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Registered: 2020-07-31

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Re: Where should I install WordPress for local development?

I've heard good things about https://localwp.com/

ayo

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From: Peniche, Portugal

Registered: 2023-10-25

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Re: Where should I install WordPress for local development?

Me too, but I wanted to try setting it up from scratch.

icar

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Registered: 2020-07-31

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Re: Where should I install WordPress for local development?

Well, there seems to be some official documentation https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/ … vironment/. If you use docker, I don't think you'll find any issue with Arch.

Khere

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From: Italy

Registered: 2020-03-04

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Re: Where should I install WordPress for local development?

And if the better option it to move it, can I use pacman to install it at that other place?

You should install a local server enviroment, and then proceed to run wordpress on it, then you can move the wordpress configuration files to the local server enviroment directories.

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stmDev

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Registered: 2025-07-19

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Re: Where should I install WordPress for local development?

I saw that you mentioned https://localwp.com/ as an option to install and run Wordpress websites.

How did you managed to install it on arch and create website?

I tried installing it with dpkg, it worked but when i am trying to build a local website it gives error.