Imagine installing Wordpress on your local Windows XP so you can change your design, tweak your code, etc., without affecting your actual live site.

Now you can do it in less than five minutes.

This is the most awesome tutorial ever, and the added benefit is that you get a fully functioning LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) installation that you can do whatever else you want with also. Totally geeky, totally cool, and totally powerful. Just be aware, of course, that doing this does place a web server on your machine, so it’s up to you to keep Apache and the other components updated regularly in case of security holes.

Check it out here.

via Dvorak.org

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