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  • I downloaded newest XAMMP on win2012 and WordPress recently.
    I installed wordpress by install.php and install completed but failed to login again and again.

    I saw wp_user table but no account was created, so I inserted username, password(MD5) , email, then it says insufficient privilege to login.

    What should I do ?

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  • Possibly you have not gave WordPress the required permission to write/modify data on MySQL database. Check for the screen-shots and the text written here for MySQL+PHPMyAdmin part for XAMPP and create a new database and do it. You have to give the full privilege. Usually so much widely open permission is not required on real LAMP setup. We are running the install.php script but writing/modifying the wp-config file manually in case of Windows localhost.

    Usually on real server we run the installer by pointing towards the domain/sub-domain/sub-directory and wp-config.php is automatically generated from the sample file and database details are written rightly on FTP files, practically we do not modify the wp-config sample file. But here in localhost you have to modify it, in the classically written way of installing WordPress. This conflict is due to chmod and chown things on FTP server on Windows.

    WAMP is better option to me than XAMPP…

    Thread Starter logtail0602

    (@logtail0602)

    Thank you very much.
    I modified wp-config.php file like the above link and tried to install install.php and prompted to input sitenamme user passowrd from WordPress and install started and looks completed.
    Next time I tried to access install.php page, it says WordPress is already installed and MySQL database includes needed WordPress file from phpMyAdmin.

    It looks login account is not created successfully.
    What should I do to troubleshoot ?

    I use XAMPP all the time with no problems. It’s actually quite simple to setup. I usually just use phpMyAdmin to setup a new DB on local dev machines. Then I access the newly unzipped WordPress files via something like 127.0.0.1/projects/MyNewSite and the installer will automatically load and take care of everything else.

    http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/installing-a-local-server/installing-xampp/

    http://wpmu.org/install-wordpress-locally-on-windows-with-xampp/

    @op / logtail0602

    Welcome.

    Next time I tried to access install.php page, it says WordPress is already installed…

    Then its nice. “no account was created” to “installed”…

    …and MySQL database includes needed WordPress file from phpMyAdmin.

    Not understanding the phrase – MySQL database includes needed WordPress file

    Can you post a screenshot?

    BTW, you can use VirtualBox plus WordPress Virtual Appliance. All are free but your processor must support virtualization. Turnkey Linux WordPress Virtual Appliance – http://www.turnkeylinux.org/wordpress Ready-made things.

    Thread Starter logtail0602

    (@logtail0602)

    Thank you.
    I took screenshot.

    I manually insert user tamuxu to wp_user because there were no user but it also did not work fine.
    How could I upload file ??

    @ logtail0602 : Upload in Dropbox or something like that and give the link here…

    Hi logtail0602.

    I had the same problem and just resolved it. It was caused by a php session timeout. This can be set in the php.ini. The max_execution time is 30 seconds by default, the wordpress installer takes just a few seconds more to compete.

    max_execution_time = 600 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
    max_input_time = 600 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data

    Good luck

    P.S. it took me 4 hours to complete the famous 5 minutes installation procedure 😉

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