Title: Localhost
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Localhost

 *  [photoguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photoguy/)
 * (@photoguy)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost/)
 * What is a localhost? Can anybody help me with this I cant seem to figure out 
   this one 🙁

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 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost/#post-357091)
 * I’m not sure I can give a text book definition, but generally speaking, if you
   are connecting a script to a database that is physically hosted on that server,
   then it’s a “localhost”, whereas, if you were connecting to a database that is
   physically hosted at another address, you would replace “localhost” with that
   address. That’s why 99/100 times, you don’t adjust that setting in wp-config,
   as you are installing WP on the server where the DB resides.
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost/#post-357099)
 * More generally, ‘localhost’ is what some piece of software is presently running
   on, i.e. the local host computer. If the pc you are working on runs a server 
   app (typically a web server like Apache, but it can be any kind of server, including
   MySQL), it’s the localhost. For our purposes and your wp-config.php settings,
   it means the server WordPress is on also interfaces with a MySQL server (locally).
 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost/#post-357100)
 * I knew someone could come along and better verbalize it 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [photoguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photoguy/)
 * (@photoguy)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost/#post-357199)
 * I am still not able to install thsi on my server. My website [http://www.bigfatknot.com](http://www.bigfatknot.com)
   is hosted on [http://www.1and1.com](http://www.1and1.com) so I have FTP the folder“
   wordpress” onto the mail directory. I made the changes to the wp-config.php as
   follows:
 * define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘bigfatknot’); // The name of the database
    define(‘DB_USER’,‘
   bigfatknot’); // Your MySQL username define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘passw0rd’); // …and
   password define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change
   this value
 * When I go to that URL I get this page 🙁
    [http://bigfatknot.com/wordpress](http://bigfatknot.com/wordpress)
 * What am I doing wrong?
 *  Thread Starter [photoguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photoguy/)
 * (@photoguy)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost/#post-357200)
 * Where would I get all those values from? I dont know MySQL username?
 * define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘bigfatknot’); // The name of the database
    define(‘DB_USER’,‘
   bigfatknot’); // Your MySQL username define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘passw0rd’); // …and
   password define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change
   this value
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost/#post-357203)
 * “_Where would I get all those values from?_“
 * From your host. Here’s their FAQ documents on MySQL:
 * [http://faq.1and1.com/scripting_languages_supported/mysql_database/](http://faq.1and1.com/scripting_languages_supported/mysql_database/)
 *  Thread Starter [photoguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photoguy/)
 * (@photoguy)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost/#post-357226)
 * Great Thnaks, it worked 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [photoguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photoguy/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost/#post-357226)
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