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# How To Host a Website On Your Own Home Computer
- URL: https://dabbleden.com/blog/how-to-host-a-website-on-your-own-home-computer/
- Published: 2018-10-16T21:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-25T23:37:55.000Z
- Description: Yes, your computer can be a webserver! You can do this with just about any computer. Like an old laptop, your current main computer, or even a raspberry pi! This is how you would do it on a Windows machine.
- Author: Dabble Dan
- Tags: Webservices, Websites

## In as Few Words as Possible:

Yes, your computer can be a webserver! You can do this with just about any computer. Like an old laptop, your current main computer, or even a raspberry pi! This is how you would do it on a Windows machine.

- Install [XAMPP](https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html?ref=dabbleden.com)
- Start Apache and MySQL services
- Download the .zip folder of [Wordpress](https://wordpress.org/download/?ref=dabbleden.com)
- In XAMPP, click Explorer
- Unzip Wordpress into the htdocs folder

WordPress is now installed

- IN FILE EXPLORER: navigate to the WordPress installation
- Open "wp-config-sample.php" and scroll to the following lines.

![](https://dabbleden.com/content/images/blog-dabbleden-com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/6543c05215e37.webp)

- Change the database ('database\_name\_here') name to match that of your database you created
- Change the username to "root"
- Change the password to nothing. ex: \[""\]
- Save as a new file, removing the "sample". "wp-config.php"
- Open a web browser
- Navigate to localhost in the URL
- Open PHPmyAdmin
- Make a new database for the WordPress website

The WordPress site is now ready.

- In your Web Browser, navigate to "LocalHost" once again.
- You should now see your WordPress Template.

Happy Blogging!

If you have any questions please feel free to ask in the comment section.