trying to run with wamp. can’t get it to work!!!

  • Resolved chr3000

    (@chr3000)


    16 years, 1 month ago

    I am running vista 64

    I have found several tutorials on installing and using WP on a local server. Unfortunately I can not get it to run. I downloaded wamp and made a database called wordpress. I moved the wp folder to www folder in wamp.
    I then went to the wp-config-sample and changed the user name to wordpress
    and then root for user and root for password and local to localhost:8889.
    I then save this as wp-config.php (removing he word sample)

    I then move to the “database connection details” page and enter the same info I did for wp-config. I leave the “table prefix” to wp.

    when I hit submit I get “Error establishing a database connection”
    How can I get this to work?
    I read in one post you have to run the install.php in a web browser but it wouldn’t run.
    What am I missing or doing wrong???

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  • I have always had trouble with wamp configurations

    Try this
    https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/
    much easier and works every time

    Thread Starter chr3000

    (@chr3000)

    Thanks for responding,
    Have you tried this set up on vista?
    The tutorial references XP that is why I am asking.

    it works the same with vista

    Thread Starter chr3000

    (@chr3000)

    I followed the instructions and went well until I put
    https://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php.

    When I put this in the address bar and hit enter I get this:

    Object not found!
    The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

    If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

    Error 404
    localhost
    02/20/09 14:55:26
    Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.8

    this is what I put in the wp-config

    // ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
    /** The name of the database for WordPress */
    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’);

    /** MySQL database username */
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’);

    /** MySQL database password */
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, “);

    /** MySQL hostname */
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

    Thread Starter chr3000

    (@chr3000)

    I got it to work by pasting the exact lines from the tutorial into the wp-config.
    It is now running. Thanks!

    Your help needed and thank you in advance!

    I am 90% through installing WP 2.9.1 on XP Pro with SP 3

    XAMPP is running installed at C:\XAMPP
    Apache & MySql running
    XAMPP is running installed at C:\XAMPP
    Apache & MySql running
    IIS not installed

    WP installed @ C:\XAMPP\wordpress\
    Blank .htaccess in root

    Cannot resolve:

    “Object not found!
    The requested URL was not found on this server…”

    The apache error log file reports:
    “[Tue Feb 02 09:11:45 2010] [error] [client ::1] File does not exist: C:/XAMPP/xampp/htdocs/wordpress”

    wp-config.php code:

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