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This post contains the steps involved to setup wordpress on your local machine in Ubuntu. ( You may want to setup a wordpress blog on local machine to customize your blog (look and feel etc) so as to save the time to FTP to a remote location.)

1. Install Apache server using the command sudo apt-get install apache2
2. Install PHP with sudo apt-get install php5
3. Install the MySQL Database  sudo apt-get install mysql-server
4. Install the PHP module for the Database sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
5. Download the latest stable version of wordpress from http://wordpress.org/download/
6. Extract the wordpress tar.gz or zip file to /var/www (using the command tar -C /var/www -zxvf wordpress-2.9.tar.gz)
7. Create a MySQL database and if needed a new user who has required privileges.
8. Navigate to /var/www/wordpress and execute the following command cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php (You may do this logging in as root user with the command sudo su )
9. Edit wp-config.php using the command nano wp-config.php (or use any other editor like gedit) and configure the values for Database connection.
10. Edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file to add the following lines. 

    LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
    AddType application/x-httpd-php  .php .phtml

11. Restart apache server using the command sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
12. You can access the blog using http://localhost/wordpress