Installation instructions for both Windows and macOs are provided below.
In general, you just need to unzip and go.
Installation on Windows
- Copy the downloaded InstantWP zip into the desired folder. It is best to not have any spaces in the folder path to InstantWP as this can cause issues.
- Unzip the InstantWP zip file using any standard zip utility such as 7-Zip.
- Open up the unzipped folder.
- Double click on the Start-InstantWP.bat file to start InstantWP.
- The InstantWP Control Panel should start up after the progress bar completes.
- Please see the ReadMe-First-Windows file that is included within the InstantWP release for more details on security and firewall issues that may occur on some systems.
Installation on macOS
- Copy the downloaded InstantWP zip into the desired folder.
- Unzip the InstantWP zip file using the standard macOS archive utility.
- Open up the unzipped folder.
- Double click on the Start-InstantWP file to start InstantWP.
- The InstantWP Control Panel should start up after the progress bar completes.
- See the ReadMe-First-macOS file that is included within the InstantWP release for more on security issues that may occur on some systems.