pickledpepper

Thanks for the suggestions. I have finally found the problem, and it leaves me rather baffled. Prior to posting in this forum I did first read a number of online instructions, including the one in the previous post. None of them worked. After describing my problem in detail on the Wamp forum, I was informed that, in order to get WordPress to work there were three crucial steps: 1) Install Wamp, 2)Create a Virtual Host using Wamp 3)Install WordPress in the site folder specified when creating the Virtual Host. This worked perfectly. I find it really strange that none of the online instructions mention the need for a Virtual Host. They all say – first install Wamp, then install WordPress in the localhost/www/ folder.

I’m sorry if I am missing something obvious – I am extremely new at this. The problem I am describing happens at the point when WordPress is first attempting to generate a wp-config.php file. Because it is unable to establish a connection to the database, the setup process is aborted and no config file is created. There is no wp-config.php file present in the wordpress folder – only wp-config-sample.php. I tried following online instructions to create a wp-config.php manually, but couldn’t get it to work.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by pickledpepper.

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried using “test” as the database name, “root” as user, password blank, and “localhost” as the database host, but I got the same error message.