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# cking

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## Forum Replies Created

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 *   Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
   
   In reply to: [Establishing a database connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/establishing-a-database-connection/)
 *  Thread Starter [cking](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cking/)
 * (@cking)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/establishing-a-database-connection/#post-129562)
 * Having now done so, I have to say that your recommendation to use XAMPP was great!
 * Simple and smooth. I did have that 1 line to alter in upgrade-functions.php to
   get past stage 3, but perfect! Now I can focus on style and getting it out to
   the real server soon.
 * Thanks again!
 * Chris
 *   Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
   
   In reply to: [Establishing a database connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/establishing-a-database-connection/)
 *  Thread Starter [cking](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cking/)
 * (@cking)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/establishing-a-database-connection/#post-129496)
 * Thanks,
    I’ll take a look at that and see if it fixes my woes. It’s XP Pro, and
   long ago disabled the IIS services. 🙂
 *   Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
   
   In reply to: [Establishing a database connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/establishing-a-database-connection/)
 *  Thread Starter [cking](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cking/)
 * (@cking)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/establishing-a-database-connection/#post-129491)
 * Oops, forgot to list that at the bottom. It is MySQL 4.1.8 (thanks)

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