Title: setting up wordpress locally – database setup
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# setting up wordpress locally – database setup

 *  Resolved [billh65](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billh65/)
 * (@billh65)
 * [11 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-wordpress-locally-database-setup/)
 * Newbie here again. I set installed wordpress on wamp server on my PC but when
   setting up the database connection details it asks for MYSQL username and password.
   How do I get these?

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 *  Thread Starter [billh65](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billh65/)
 * (@billh65)
 * [11 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-wordpress-locally-database-setup/#post-4946074)
 * Sorry I found that there is a default name of ‘root’ with blank password

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-wordpress-locally-database-setup/#post-4946074)
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