Launch the XAMPP Control Panel

This step launches the XAMPP Control Panel. You need to have already downloaded and installed XAMPP.

1. To launch the XAMPP Control Panel, go to C:\XAMPP and double-click xampp-control.exe.

2. Click the Start buttons to start Apache and MySQL.

3. Once Apache has started, confirm that the ports used are 80 and 443.

Note: Your computer uses port 80 for non-secure web traffic and port 443 for secure (https) web traffic. Your local environment requires these ports too. If they are busy, XAMPP may assign different ports (8080 and 4433) which can cause issues in WordPress. To prevent these issues, manually configure the local environment ports to 80 and 443.

If you need help, go to Troubleshooting XAMPP Port Conflicts.

4. Open your web browser and go to http://localhost. The XAMPP welcome message will confirm successful installation.

Step 3 is complete!

Move on to Create a MySQL database.

4. Create MySQL DB

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