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1. Seamoose
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   hi i tried to install Xampp - and i swear i followed the instructions to the letter. HOWEVER I am on XP Pro and I am aware of this issue:

   "And make sure if it's Pro that you've disabled windows' own inbuilt server."

   but i have no idea what windows' own inbuilt server is or how to disable.

   any help greatly appreciated. Please be very descriptive as I am no uber-geek!

2. whooami
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   "And make sure if it's Pro that you've disabled windows' own inbuilt server."

   IIS.

   If you type http://localhost into a browser window and IIS documentation pops up, its running.

   You will also have a MMC console called "Internet Information Services" within your administration tools -- thats where disk defrag, group policies, etc.. (all that crap is).

   If you have neither of those, or are sure you never installed anything named "Internet Information Services" then dont worry, you dont have it to contend with.

3. Seamoose
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thanks Whooami. When i click that link you gave me (local host) i just get the usual firefox message:
   Unable to connect. Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost.* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again ... yadda yadda

   so I guess its not IIS

   So I wonder what the problem could be then? The only part of the instructions that looked different to the actual screen when setting up the database was the bit where I had to fill int the name (wordpress) then utt8 unicode ci

   "utt8 unicode ci" was already in a field above, but whether i filled the second field with utt8 unicode ci or "collate" which was there. No dice either way. The auto choice thing has underscores though when the instructions do not. or is all this irrelevant.

   Help?

4. moshu
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Well, you have to start the local server (xampp) before trying to connect...
   http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

5. Seamoose
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   i am pretty sure xampp has started. it is teling me it's good to go, activated, congratualations, etc, but when i try wp-admin/intall.php it says "Error establishing a database connection"

6. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Make sure you have the correct information in your wp-config.php file. In my xampp install, the user is root, with no password, and localhost as the database host.

7. Seamoose
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thanks Michael,

   Here's what I have in wp-config

   define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');
   define('DB_USER', 'root');
   define('DB_PASSWORD', 'PASSWORD');
   define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

8. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   What happens if you change that password line to:

   define('DB_PASSWORD', '');

9. Seamoose
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hello World!

   Thanks HandySolo, good job. And thanks all for the help. Marking as resolved ... now.

   Very excellent forum too I might add, polite, helpful, low on ego. happy campers!

10. Chris_K
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Rock on. Happy Blogging!

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