How to Install WordPress on MacOS

Introduction
WordPress is a free and opensource content management system based on PHP and MySQL. It has to be installed on a web server for the proper functioning. It is the most popular website management and blogging system present on the web.

As of February 2017, WordPress is used by 58.7 % websites whose content management system is known. In this tutorial, we will install WordPress on MacOS.

Prerequisites
MacOS
Login as an administrator on terminal.
PHP 5.x or greater
Installation
To install WordPress on MacOS, we need to perform following steps.

1) Download compressed file

Visit https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz and download the latest version of WordPress which is a compressed file.
2) extract the file

The archived file can be extracted using tar command on terminal. A folder with the same name will be created which will represent all the necessary files in uncompressed format.

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3) Create database

Start MySQL server and open the shell to create a database which will be used by WordPress.

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4) Start the PHP development server

To start the server, a simple command is executed. For this, We have to change our directory to the WordPress home directory.

$ cd Downloads/WordPress
$ php ?S 127.0.0.1:8080
The command will start a PHP development server which is listening on the port 8080.

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5) Access WordPress from Localhost

Type localhost:8080 on your browser’s bar and it will appear like following.

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Choose the language and press Enter.

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Click on let’s go and the window will prompt to fill the database details such as database name, host address and password.

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When we submit the database details, the window prompt to enter the website credentials. Fill the website title, email and password and click submit.

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Click install WordPress to install it after filling all the details about the website.

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WordPress is installed now. It shows a login prompt window. We must fill the email address or username and the password to login to WordPress.

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Now we have installed WordPress successfully. Now we can make and customize our websites.
How to Install Node.js on MacOS
Introduction
Node.js is an open source, cross platform, JavaScript runtime platform which enables JavaScript to be used for server-side scripting. Although .js is the extension to a JavaScript file but it doesn’t represent any file of the framework. Now it has become foundational element of “JavaScript everywhere” paradigm.

In this tutorial, we will learn the steps involved in the installation process of Node.js on MacOS.

Prerequisites
MacOS
Homebrew must be installed on the system.
Installation
This includes the following steps.

1) Update repository index of Homebrew package installer

Repository index of homebrew package installer needs to be updated first. It can be done with the help of following command:

$ brew update
2) Install Node.js

After updating the repository index of homebrew package installer, we need to install Node.js using the following command:

$ brew install node.js
This installs Node.js inside the Celllar directory of /usr/local/.

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To verify that we have installed the desired version of Node.js, we can run the command node -v. It will show the version installed on our MacOS.

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To run node.js on MacOS, just execute the node command. It will provide the development environment in which we can run the JavaScript code.