wordpress help

[mpsn]

Hi, does anyone know use wordpress, I'm told I need to use an FTP, so I use Filezilla and on the client side, I put my wordpress folder in localhost (I use XAMPP) so C:\XAMPP\wordpress\...install.php and wordpress installed, and I added a new user in phpmyadmin for my wordpress db with a username and password set but when I open Filezilla client and enter host: 127.0.01 (localhost) and port 21, and change logon type to normal and enter the username wordpress@localhost and the password I set up in phpmyadmin, it says:

Could not connect to server

 

Any help appreicated

[QuickOldCar]

since you are doing this from the same computer, you can just copy the wordpress files directly into the www folder

no need to ftp to your own computer

 

so all files within wordpress folder into \xampp\htdocs

 

then visit http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 in your browser, follow the wordpress install

 

Personally I like to use wamp or appserv for windows, xammp or mamp for mac, and lamp for linux (either use the server versions like ubuntu server or install the needed packages, may install the gui if needed to)

[QuickOldCar]

And this tutorial should help you install everything.

 

http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/install-wordpress-on-your-computer-using-wampserver/

[trq]

Have you actually got an ftp server installed?