Sorry, doodlebee! Everything looks good until the last step. It says:
In your browser, go to https://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php and everything from there should run smoothly !
So even though the Xampp control panel says MySql and Apache are running ok, and I can see that the WordPress database exists, I get the error like it can’t find my WordPress database.
It’s probably something so simple that I didn’t do…