Running WordPress Locally

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I feel a major sense of déjà vu because I have gone down this road before. In the past I have done the whole MAMP setup so I could have my local server for development purposes. I no longer had that on my laptop so I was starting fresh. As I started the Tuts+ tutorial by Tom McFarlin, he recommended MAMP (and WAMP and XAMPP). I decided to go a different route and try Desktop Server. I had heard good things about it, plus I’d previously met Marc Benzakein through the WP After Dark hangout (now defunct) and then saw …