jayv2251

Yeah, I probably didn’t phrase that right. If I purchase rights to an image, or use my own images, I need to know if a plug in will first of all change the theme I’ve decided to use, without (at this time) learning how to code that in. A reminder or at least a prompt to give credit to whom owns the image would be an added bonus.

I’m running into the same thing when it comes to giving disclosure to readers when it comes to affiliate links and Google Ad Sense. This legal stuff is enough to make you wanna pull your hair out.

Because of all the issus I had with 7zip not working and using Bitnami’s plugin for Xampp I made the decision to delete everything and start fresh. Which I just completed and now have a site working on my localhost. Thanks for all the help!!!

Okay, I’m getting even more confused now. I didn’t want to do anything other then to install Xammp on my laptop so I could work on my WordPress website before paying for a host. Having read the install instructions many times over, I thought I was installing it, at it’s most basic, simplest format.

I’d like to repeat, I only downloaded and attempted to install the Bitnami .exe version of WordPress as I was having issues unzipping files. I believe Windows has had this ability since XP, I’m now using Win 8.1. I tried to unzip the files to the htdocs folder, but it kept asking which program to use. That’s why I downloaded 7zip.

I think at this point I’m going to uninstall 7zip, WordPress and Xampp. Then re download Xampp, download WordPress.zip and WinRAR and start from scratch.

I tried using https://my_websiter.com/wordpress/ adding that last backslash. That didn’t work either.

If I don’t find what’s going wrong soon, I may consider uninstalling both Xampp and WordPress. I downloaded both from Bitnami. I was going to download WordPress.zip from www.remarpro.com, but I’ve been having issues with 7zip not working.

Currently Xampp is in the C:\ root directory with the installed copy of WordPress being located in the C:\Xampp\apps\wordpress directory. Mind you I didn’t select this, the WordPress.exe file I also downloaded from Bitnami did.

Just for the record, I followed along with www.remarpro.com’s infamous 5 minute install and everything came up as prompted.

Okay tried that. Added 127.0.0.1 in the first column and my_website.com in second column. Edited and saved as admin. Started Xampp, opened IE 11 and still nothing. Received “This page can’t be displayed.” for both my_website.com/wordpress or /wp-admin. Well, every step we take we eliminate one more possibility.

Couple more questions. Syntax can be tricky at times. The name I use for my website has an underscore in it. Could this be causing an issue?

While sailors my think any port in a storm is good, doesn’t work so well with networking, internet. I noticed that MySQL has taken to port 3306, where as Apache is on port 80. Could I not set localhost to localhost:80?

Okay, that makes sense. Only, where’s the hosts file located?

Now I’m even more confused! Did quite a bit of reading on packets out of order. Seems this is more likely to happen with Mamp on an Apple product. Odd, since I have a toshiba laptop running Windows 8.1!

I thought about that later, I type the wrong file name. Actually meant wp-config.php, not wp-admin.php. I’m using notepad++ to edit, and I learned the hard way you need to stop then restart server for things to take affect.

Mark Senff,

My email has been acting weird last few days. Just received the email for your post above. As you can see, I’ve gone over these settings a dozen times or more. Ready to pull my hair out! Having said that I’m not the type to sit around waiting for others to do my work for me. Was doing my own investigating for the infamous “Error establishing a database connection” issue.

I cam across a script I could possibly run. I just don’t know how. It’s been 15 years since I took my Linux certification course, where most of the script writing was in bash, with some php. I look at the gui that came with Xampp for php and I’m totally lost!

Another suggestion was to switch ‘localhost:3306’ to 127.0.0.1. This did not work. I also read that using an underscore when naming the database name may cause an issue. Didn’t have a chance to investigate this any further. I only did that because that’s how it says to do it in the Getting Started guide.

I’m all ears if anyone has any other suggestions. In the mean time I’ll continue reading and trying different things. See what works. Soooo frustrating, I just wanna get into building my website! UGH!

That’s very similar to what I have going on. Everything points to the wp-admin file. Have you checked to see your settings in there are correct?

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘root_wordpress-trunk’); As per Getting started guide.

/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘Myusername’); Repeatedly checked from notes during install/setup.

/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘mypassword’); Also repeatedly checked against notes made during install/setup.

/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost:3306’);

I just don’t get it! I’ve gone over this so many times. When I start up Xampp Control panel, I’ve got green across the board, so I know every thing is working fine. Just can’t pull up https://localhost/wp-admin. Either I need a way to reset everything back to default or a hint to where what I actually entered is stored other then wp-config.

Obviously I entered something wrong. What file contains the data I originally typed that I should have changed wp-admin to? Software has to be comparing against something.

Tried that. Didn’t work. Received a 404 error. Also the following error message.

Warning: mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/1045): Access denied for user ‘Jaxom’@’localhost’ (using password: YES) in C:\xampp\apps\wordpress\htdocs\wp-includes\wp-db.php on line 1386

Deprecated: mysql_connect(): The mysql extension is deprecated and will be removed in the future: use mysqli or PDO instead in C:\xampp\apps\wordpress\htdocs\wp-includes\wp-db.php on line 1416

Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user ‘Jaxom’@’localhost’ (using password: YES) in C:\xampp\apps\wordpress\htdocs\wp-includes\wp-db.php on line 1416

Error establishing a database connection

This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost:3306. This could mean your host’s database server is down.
?Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
?Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
?Are you sure that the database server is running?

Local, I’ll try that right now.

Okay, never mind then. After a couple of hours trying to trouble shoot this myself, shut down computer. Had some free time while house sitting for a friend, rebooted computer. Then started Xampp so I could copy and past the error log in addition to the error report above. Apache now works! Go figure!!!