Installing word press on local pc

  • im trying to install a copy of wordpress on my pc so i can build my site and then upload it. I have other sites running with IIS/PHP?MySQL and they work fine. Everytime I try to setup wordpress I get the error of:

    Error establishing a database connection! This probably means that the connection information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect. Double check it and try again.
    * Are you sure you have the correct user/password?
    * Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
    * Are you sure that the database server is running?

    Im not sure what Im doing wrong. I have what seems to be all the right info in the config file. Am I missing something?

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  • Well, I just installed a copy on my local machine. I’m using WinXP, and just installed Apache 2.0.49, PHP 4.3.7 and MySQL 4.0.20a, and finally WordPress 1.2. Since I’m not trying to host anything here, I just installed Apache for local use only. I believe I installed everything well enough to work, but there may be a few rough edges.
    I believe I got some errors like you did, but once I changed the MySQL hostname/username/password in we-config.php, I got a bit farther than you did….
    I got my random admin password, and logged in with it ONCE successfully. Ever since then, when I login, or try to access the login script (https://localhost:8080/wordpress/wp-login.php), I just get a page with “Index of /wordpress/wp-admin” and the appropriate list of files. I even registered a new account with the wp-register.php script, but cannot login.

    Scratch that login problem. I think I have some of the links between pages within the blog a little messed up, which sent me to the directory list, and that confused me.
    What also confused me was that I didn’t realize that the blog looked about the same when I was logged in or when I wasn’t, except for the “edit post” type links, so I was logged in and didn’t realize it! Oopsie!
    So now I’m continuing with my local tests while I continue trying to decide on a domain name for my blog so I can put it up in a public space.

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