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Here's what I did to set up a local mirror of my Wordpress blog on MacOS X. Contents [hide] * 1 Motivation and Assumptions * 2 Configure Apache and PHP * 3 Create a example.mirror static site * 4 Install and Configure MySQL * 5 Set up the WordPress user and database * 6 Finishing off * 7 Automating it Motivation and Assumptions Firstly, why do this? Well I can think of a few reasons: * keeping an up-to-date and working backup * using it for testing changes to the blog before you inflict them on the world. Like formatting, software updates, or anything really. * It's fun (except for the MySQL setup, which we'll get to) The basic idea is to take a snapshot of the database and file system your hosting provider, download it and extract it locally, then be able to view the result.