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Thank you – finally got it working last night!

not anymore. I REALLY struggled with easy php when I tried it yesterday and have been trying xampp today instead.

No – I’ve not managed to get anywhere!!

I’ve installed xampp twice, easyphp once and xampplite once. They seem to install okay but then I can’t install wordpress or I can’t access the xampp homepage or when I do then I can’t access myphpadmin to set up my databases. I’ve googled it and found step-by-step instructions, but they don’t help with what do if you hit a snag.

It seems that I have Microsoft, so I did find a workaround for that – but it doesn’t work.

Driving me mad – so much for being easy to use.

Obviously time to call it a day and look elsewhere for web building tools.

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Okay, I think I need help in words of one syllable. I have tried installing easyphp, which seems to have worked, but half the menu options are greyed out meaning I cannot click on them and when I try to install wordpress I get a differenet fault message – now saying the root@localhost is denied access.

So starting from the beginning, all I want to do is download a version of wordpress onto my pc which I can then play around with to build a website. I do not want this to be viewable by anyone else and I do not want my current website to be affected by it while I try to build a new website. If I am able to build a website I like with wordpress I then want to upload it to my webhost so that other can access it too.

So, in words of one syllable, what should I do? It is driving me absolutely insane and to be honest have never come across a website which has so little information on how to install the software and how to use it once it’s installed!

Please help before I shoot myself!

Thank you

I don’t have xampp installed any more – just the WPI from the links on this site which is meant to install WordPress but it won’t because it says it can’t access the database.

Thanks

I’ve looked at wordpress.com, but unfortunately it won’t help me work out whether I can build a website for my business with it.

I’ve managed to get the WPI installed but when I get to installing wordpress it gets stuck saying that it cannot access the database. I am only given the option of MySQL in the drop down menu and I am saying it is a local host. I have mySQL v 5.1 installed on my pc.

I just want to be able to play around with this a bit to see what I can do with it and without anyone else seeing my efforts at the moment.

I’m running Windows XP Professional

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Help – I am completely lost! I went to the installing WordPress page and followed the links to install WPI but that didn’t work properly as apparently I need the Windows XP disc and I can’t find it. I’ve tried the apache friends one and it has apparently downloaded but I just keep getting messages saying it is not a trusted site and I can’t work out what on earth I am supposed to do next anyway.

Please help – I thought wordpress was meant to be easy but it is driving me nuts!!