Wade

I am using ‘HTTP_X_FORAWRDED_FOR’, and it is logging the CloudFlare IPs.

I understand. I expected it was just a skeleton bootstrap theme. I just wanted to be sure I wasn’t missing anything.

Thank you both for your recommendations.

I went with another theme, I didn’t have enough time to start from that scratch.

I plan to work on a child theme of this one to get my own modifications all set up for a baseline of a Bootstrap WordPress site that I can use over and over again. I would have rather it been on Bootstrap, but we liked the theme and it’s pretty mobile friendly.

Thanks again!

Update:

So, I nuked my entire XAMPP install and started over. After backing up specific files and server config changes, of course.

It seems like maybe once a year, XAMPP just dies. Usually I notice it when my Laravel or Yii2 migrations won’t run. I don’t recall what error they gave last time, but this time those migrations still worked, which is why I thought my local server was ok.

Next time this happens, I will give up on XAMPP and switch to Docker.

As I stated, this is a local development project. All of the customizations, were in the child-theme. Making a backup of it, and starting a new project, isn’t a big deal.

Also, as mentioned in my OP, The wp-config.php file was populated correctly (db info, key/salts, etc), as well as the database. I even received the WordPress welcome email.

The installer just spun forever.

The only error reported was: Unknown column 'wp_' in 'field list' for query SELECT wp_

It looks like it tried to run a SELECT query on wp_, the table prefix with an empty column name.