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WordPress Local WordPress Development Local WordPress Development Customizing Your Local Server Setup on a Mac

Ryan Schmelter
Ryan Schmelter
9,710 Points
Posted by Ryan Schmelter
Ryan Schmelter
9,710 Points

Very confused about local hosting

Hoping someone can help with this, as I'm really confused. Here, he talks about setting up FTP access and C panel, and I'm not sure why it's assumed we know this. Also, there's a shorter WordPress track where he had us install Desktop Server for local hosting, and now we're using XAMMP. Can anyone help clarify this? Is there a difference?

3 Answers

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

Not a problem, but we'll need to go over a couple of things:

Do you have a live site yet?

Have you used C-panel?

Have you used FTP?

If you have a live site you will have a host provider like siteground or bluehost. There you will find the c-pannel

FTP is a program used to transfer files from your computer to your live site. If you haven't used FTP yet, your hosting provider should have a tutorial on how to use it with there hosting.

What he is talking about is transferring from a local site to a live site. So from your computer to the internet.

if you have any questions please feel free to ask.

Michelle Cannito
Michelle Cannito
8,992 Points
Michelle Cannito
Michelle Cannito
8,992 Points

Why is the assumption made that we used FTP and cPanel before? Already there's missing instructions on setup for Windows users. Now this. What, would it take all of 3 minutes to teach someone to download Filezilla and how to use it? From not having a good Java path (starts with a debugging course!), to having an Angular course that is unnecessarily complicated, to missing Windows directions, to not covering simple things needed (like cPanel and FTP)-- I think this is my last month for TeamTreehouse for awhile.

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

What is it that you don't understand?