Transcript Creating WordPress Websites

Creating WordPress Websites
Creating a site on your computer
• Local server
• Local WordPress installation
• Setting Up Dreamweaver
Installing a Local server
• For WordPress an AMP type server is needed
– A – Apache is the HTTP server
– M – MySQL is the database server
– P – PHP (also includes Python and Perl) is the
application server
• Windows installation – WAMP
• Macintosh installation – MAMP
• Linux installation - LAMP
HTTP message traffic
(1) Client sends an HTTP request (a url for the webpage to be displayed)
(2) URL includes PHP files so send a request to application server
(3) PHP file includes requests for data from database so send request to database
server
(4) Database server sends back the data that is requested
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HTML
web
page
Apache (HTTP
server)
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PHP Application
Server
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MySQL database
server
(5) Application process the database info and PHP code – sends back
Result to HTTP server as HTML
(6) HTTP server sends HTML pages and assets back to client (Web
Browser)
Apache – HTTP server
• Apache is an HTTP server which works with all
Operating Systems (OS)
• Job of the HTTP server is to receive requests
from clients (web browsers)
• Static web pages (made up of HTML files and
associated files) – all info collected and sent
back to client as a HTTP response
• Dynamic web pages (such as php files) sent to
application server for processing
Application Servers
• There are multiple types of application servers
– ASP – Active Server Pages - Windows only
– ASP.NET – also Active Server Pages – Windows
– PHP server – part of the AMP family
• PHP Application server parses (reads) the PHP
code and dynamically constructs the HTTP
response. All PHP commands are executed on
the server and the results are part of the HTTP
response sent back by HTTP server
Database Server
• AMP’s database server is MySQL
• Others available – Oracle, Microsoft SQL
• PHP code may use a database to get and store
information within its code. The SQL
commands are sent to the database server
which process the request and sends the
results back to the Application server which
can then continue
Local site setup
• Install the AMP server (it’s free)
– MAMP ->
http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp/index.html
– WAMP ->
http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php
– LAMP -> Linux installation
Start Local Servers
• Start AMP (in my case MAMP)
Create a database
Where is it?
Install WordPress
• Download WordPress from WordPress.org
http://wordpress.org/download/
• Look at previous slide and see that it is
installed under MAMP and database – called
blog in my directory
Create a Dreamweaver Site
• Now create a new site in Dreamweaver.
• Define the folder to point to the same
Applications/MAMP/htdocs/explore_ca (for example)
• Connect Dreamweaver to the local server
Working on a real server
• You can also work on an actual domain using a
real WordPress installation and a working
remote server
• http://nkybluejays.org
• http://merderdesigns.com