{"id":2785,"date":"2011-08-15T22:26:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T03:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2013-04-14T20:07:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T01:07:59","slug":"instant-wordpress-easiest-way-to-install-wordpress-on-a-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/2011\/08\/15\/instant-wordpress-easiest-way-to-install-wordpress-on-a-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant WordPress: Easiest Way To Install WordPress On A PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a fan of WordPress (who isn&#8217;t?) I was excited to hear about <a title=\"Instant WordPress\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instantwp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instant WordPress<\/a> via this <a title=\"wpmu\" href=\"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/introducing-instant-wordpress-a-free-portable-development-environment\/\" target=\"_blank\">wpmu.org<\/a> post. Instant WordPress is billed as a &#8220;complete standalone, portable WordPress development environment&#8221; and &#8220;The easiest and quickest way to install WordPress!&#8221; The 54MB download installs a portable and completely self contained copy of WordPress on a PC. There is no need to go through more time consuming methods like installing <a title=\"wampserver\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wampserver.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">wampserver<\/a> , <a title=\"XAMPP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apachefriends.org\/en\/xampp.html\" target=\"_blank\">XAMPP<\/a> or others if the exclusive or main use of using MySQL and php is to work with WordPress on a PC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/instantwp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2796\" title=\"Instant WordPress\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/instantwp-300x97.jpg\" alt=\"Instant WordPress\" width=\"300\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After installing Instant WordPress on a XP desktop I was disappointed to see that it would not start, it did generate an error (see above image) but the error was obscured by the program&#8217;s splash image. The error dialog was not movable using either the mouse or keyboard. I looked in the program&#8217;s folder, found the splash image (splash.png) and decided to resize it to a smaller size image so that the error would come into view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/instantwp2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2797\" title=\"Instant WordPress\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/instantwp2.jpg\" alt=\"Instant WordPress\" width=\"270\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The error in question was \u201c%1 is not a valid Win32 application.\u201d (see above image). That particular error is often associated with Windows not reading or liking a blank space in some configuration (in many cases a batch file) of the program in question. I decided to move the Instant WordPress folder from the desktop &#8211; whose &#8220;Documents and Settings&#8221; path contains spaces &#8211; to c:\\ and as expected it worked (see below image).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/instantwp3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2798\" title=\"Instant WordPress\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/instantwp3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Instant WordPress\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instant WordPress is the easiest method yet to play with WordPress and it comes with a few dummy posts and pages. As of this post it is bundled with WordPress 3.2, MySQL 5.1.46-community-nt with phpMyAdmin, Apache 2.2.15, and PHP 5.3.2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a fan of WordPress (who isn&#8217;t?) I was excited to hear about Instant WordPress via this wpmu.org post. 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