To be able to run Services like WordPress and others on our machine we want to install a Apache HTTP Server locally. We run the OperatingSystem Arch Linux, Manjaro to be specific.

The Tutorial provided by wiki.archlinux.org describes everything we need to know and more. Here is the gist:

Installation

run in Terminal:

sudo pacman -S apache

Start Apache

run in Terminal:

sudo apachectl start

Achievement

We can now visit http://localhost, which serves the directory /srv/http.

The configuration Files will be stored in /etc/httpd/conf. We will use them to install PHP for Apache and MySQL for Apache.

This will enable us to install WordPress.