Setting up Laragon on Windows is a straightforward process. Laragon is a portable, isolated, fast, and powerful development environment for PHP, Node.js, Python, and Ruby applications. It comes with Apache, MySQL, PHP, and other essential tools pre-configured, making it easy to set up a local development environment. (more…)

Step 1: Go to C:\xampp\mysql. Make sure you are in the correct file location. Step 2:  Backup the data folder by making a copy of the folder Step 3: Extract the "mysql" folder from C:\xampp\mysql\backup. Step 4: Replace the mysql folder inside C:\xampp\mysql\data\ Step 5: Restart MySQL service from XAMPP

To set up a WordPress and phpMyAdmin environment using Vagrant, follow these steps: Install Vagrant: Download and install Vagrant from the official website (https://www.vagrantup.com/). Make sure to also install the required virtualization software, such as VirtualBox or VMware. Choose a Vagrant Box: Select a Vagrant box that suits your needs. For example, you can use the "bento/ubuntu-20.04" box, which provides an Ubuntu 20.04 base image. Initialize your Vagrant project by running the following command in your project directory: (more…)

To set up WordPress in an Ubuntu virtual machine using Vagrant, you can follow these steps:

1. Install VirtualBox: Download and install Oracle VirtualBox from the official website (https://www.virtualbox.org/) for your host operating system.
2. Install Vagrant: Download and install Vagrant from the official website (https://www.vagrantup.com/) for your host operating system.
3. Create a new directory: Create a new directory where you want to set up your Vagrant project.
4. Initialize Vagrant: Open a terminal or command prompt and navigate to the project directory.
5. Run vagrant init hashicorp/bionic64 to initialize vagrant.  This command initializes a new Vagrant project with an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) base box.
6. Edit Vagrantfile: Open the Vagrantfile generated in the project directory using a text editor. Modify it to include the following configuration. An example Vagrant file that can be used to set up a WordPress environment in an Ubuntu virtual machine using VirtualBox as the provider:

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For example, you may have table with varchar, text or longtext fields and you may see garbled data in it. Though the text appears correctly on web pages, inside MySQL junk characters may appear. CREATE TABLE `my_news` ( `nid` bigint(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `title` text, `short_news` longtext) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; In order to correct this error, try to alter the table in the following sequence. (more…)

Step 1: Identify the user id for which you want to change the password Step 2: Issue the below MySQL command to update the password for the selected user update wpgi_users set user_pass=MD5('yourpasswordgoeshere') where wpgi_users.id=1