Famous 5-Minute Install http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress Users of XAMPP (Windows): Some versions of XAMPP do not enable mod_rewrite by default (though it is compiled in Apache). To enable it — and thus enable WordPress to write the .htaccess file needed to create pretty permalinks — you must open apache/conf/httpd.conf and uncomment the line LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so (i.e., delete the hash/pound sign at the front of the line). \wamp\www\wordpress\wp-includes\httpd.conf LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so step1: download/install http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php step2: C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.13\conf httpd.conf : change port from 80 to 8x step3: create database for wordpress in mysql step4: download wordpress and unzip to www folder step5: Editing wp-config.php