In this chapter, you'll learn what you need to get your own concrete5 site up and running on your local computer. You don't need to have a lot of experience with Apache, PHP, and MySQL configuration as we're going to use Bitnami, which will install all necessary components in almost no time.
Before you can start working with concrete5, you have to set up an environment, where you can test and play around with concrete5 to get used to it. If you have a web hosting account, you can install concrete5 there, but since that isn't always the case, we'll install everything concrete5 needs to work smoothly on your local Windows computer. We're assuming that you're working with Windows but instructions are available for those running Mac OS or Linux; most instructions work the same for all operating systems.
Bitnami installs a local web server, which we'll use to build and test the add-ons we're going to create. In the last chapter of this book, we're going to move the site from your local computer to a live web server.