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 XAMPP, which will install all the 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.

The local webserver will only be used to build and test the site as well as 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 webserver.