Install Wordpress locally (macOS)

Very brief instruction on how to install Bitnami’s Wordpress package on local machine for Mac only.

Step 1:

• Navigate to https://bitnami.com/stack/wordpress .
• OR google “bitnami wordpress”.

Step 2:

• Click on Download for Mac OS X.

Step 3:

• Copy Wordpress application to Applications folder.

Step 4:

• Once downloaded, open application. You may have to provide authentication to open application.
• Once opened, you will see the following prompt with “wordpress” at the top:

Step 5:

• Click on the Start button
• NOTE: In the case you get an error message saying “stackman” is already running, grab the pid from the error message, open your terminal and paste kill -9 <pid_here>`. Then proceed to click the Start button again.

Step 6:

• Once you get the green light status, navigate to the Services tab in the Wordpress prompt.
• You’ll notice all stack services are not running by the red icon next to each service.

• Click “Start All”

Step 7:

• Navigate back to the General tab and click on “Open Terminal”. This will open your terminal to the landing prompt of Bitnami’s CLI application. You will see Welcome to the WordPress package by Bitnami .
• paste this code into the terminal and hit enter:

sudo cat /home/bitnami/bitnami_credentials

• This will return your default user and password. Your default password will be different.

Step 8:

• Return the the Wordpress prompt and click Go to Application. This will open your Wordpress application in your default browser. Mine is chrome:

Step 9:

• To login, click on the URL at the top, and append /login at the end of the url and hit enter.
• Use the credentials given in the terminal to login. You will then be directed to your new Wordpress dashboard!

Step 10:

• Leave a comment detailing any errors or blockers you came across while following these basic instructions. Let me know if this helped/didn’t help.

Cheers :-)

Useful docs:

• Bitnami’s Packaged Wordpress Docs: https://docs.bitnami.com/installer/apps/wordpress/