Laragon and WP
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Hello there!
As a Laragon and also as a WordPress newbie, I have so far used the unzipped XAMPP folder on my data partition D without having to install XAMPP on my system partition.
I would like to do so with Laragon, too, which, as far as I can see from several tutorials, is even a better fit for my WP needs.Reading the following lines on your GitHub site:
"Laragon doesn't use Windows services. It has its own service orchestration which manages services asynchronously and non-blocking so you'll find things run fast & smoothly with Laragon."
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"Isolated -- Laragon has an isolated environment with your OS - it will keep your system clean.",
I guess, the answer is yes, but I would like to make sure this is in fact the case, the more so since one tutorial I watched said you have to stick to the C:\Laragon path when installing, which I cannot believe.
Being able to start Laragon on my data partition D would be great for me, since my system partition C is not as spacious as my data partition, so it would be great if I could install on my data partition D and have its huge space for my WP installations.
Thank you for any help! I am looking forward to working with Laragon and WP!
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@valido : And also:
"Portable - You can move Laragon folder around (to another disks, to another laptops, sync to Cloud,…) without any worries."So just move your
C:/laragontoD:/laragon, Laragon will work fine. It is a powerful feature of Laragon that you can not find in others.
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@leokhoa :
Thanks a lot for your answer, that's great to hear!
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@valido said in Laragon and WP:
@leokhoa :
Thanks a lot for your answer, that's great to hear!I downloaded laragon-wamp.exe vers. 4.014 from your GitHub page (I prefer that to sourceforge), or is there any reason I should rather start with the older version 4.0 as offered on your laragon home page?
As far as I can see, laragon-wamp.exe (lite version?) is enough for a WP beginner?
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@valido said in Laragon and WP:
I downloaded laragon-wamp.exe vers. 4.014 from your GitHub page (I prefer that to sourceforge), or is there any reason I should rather start with the older version 4.0 as offered on your laragon home page?
As far as I can see, laragon-wamp.exe (lite version?) is enough for a WP beginner?Apart from these 2 questions, I would be glad if you could shortly answer the following one, too:
I see that for my local WP installations within Laragon, I can choose between MySQL or MariaDB, but what irritates me a bit is your following statement that I found when searching this forum:
@leokhoa wrote13 days ago:
"Laragon can work with MariaDB, but it will not fully support MariaDB."
With my provider, I have the same choice when installing WordPress, and I was going to select MariaDB (without being absolutely fixed on this choice), but from your above comment it seems to me that you would rather recommend using a MySQL database (as I said, my context is local WordPress testing), or was it rather aimed at very special-needs contexts?
Thanks a lot for any hints concerning these 3 questions!
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@leokhoa :
I hope my above newbie questions were not too dumb, or am I supposed to open a new thread?
I would be grateful for any answers.
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Hi @valido
Here are my answers:- You can go with Laragon Lite for Wordpress. As Laragon is extensible, you can add another tools like Node.js using Menu > Tools > Quick add
- MySQL and MariaDB are compatible for most cases (in term of API & drivers). On Windows, MySQL works stable than MariaDB so you can use MySQL on Windows.
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@leokhoa :
Thank you very much for answering my questions, very much appreciated!
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@valido : You're welcome. I'm glad to help
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