On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Richard Owlett wrote:

> My Pastor has asked me to administer the church's new website {designed
> and hosted by a consultant using WordPress}. I would like to run my own
> copy of standard WordPress physically locally for self-education. Reading
> wordpress.org, WordPress inherently assumes it is running under Apache
> (IIRC). I have an old desktop which physically does not have ethernet -
> the reason for another thread. In the meantime, can I run a client and
> server simultaneously on my one other operable machine?

Richard,

   In general, yes. For example, my former business bookkeeping software
(Ledger123) uses postgresql as the database back end and httpd (apache) for
the user interface. Those are installed on the current desktop
server/workstation and I worked on the application via firefox.

Rich

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