ayadmirjan

Problem resolved!!!!! And as always, it was something incredibly ridiculous. Instead of renaming the wordpress folder and moving it under htdocs, I was only taking its contents and placing them under a different folder in htdocs. Believe it or not, that was the problem. Thank you guys for all your help!

– are both servers running: Hmm…How can I make sure that they are both running?
– are your WP files in Applications/MAMP/htdocs/sitename: Yes
– did you use the default MAMP settings, that is, you did not change the document root nor the ports: Yes, i used the default settings
– you would normally start the install with:

https://localhost:8888/sitename: Correct and that’s when I’m getting the error

– if all that has been done, then try it using a new database
– fire up phpMyAdmin, click the Databases tab, and enter wordpress2 as the database name and then click Create

– use this name now as the Database name along with the root and root as User and Pwd.
I created another database and called it wordpress2. When logging into https://localhost:8888/wordpress2/wp-admin/install.php I get the same error.

Thank you both!
@2ninerniner2: I did exactly that and it is not working. I keep getting this error. I am running out of options. ??

I have tried rebooting and still seem to have the same problem…any thoughts?

That’s very helpful…thanks Cory.

Thanks Cory. I bought the domain from Namebright.com…wouldn’t NameBright be my host in this case? Sorry, I am clearly technically challenged.

I called NameBright and they asked me to get in touch with www.remarpro.com in order to acquire the new name servers.