What did your examination of the questions contained in the text reveal?
I could not figure it out. I am stuck
I get a red message a few steps before that saying WP may not be installed.
Can you please describe in more detail how you are trying to install WordPress? I’m not entirely clear from the above sentence. Are you local or in a hosting environment? Are you following instructions, and if so, which ones?
I am tying to install it localhost on xxamp, following this tutorial:
Bing Videos
Okay, and where are you at in the process? Did you create the database as described? Did you then go to http://localhost/wordpress/? If so, you should be taken to the setup page where you can enter your database access data. This error message should never appear.
Hi @georgeogorman
Please find the following lines in your wp-config.php file and edit them according to your database information.
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define( ‘DB_NAME’, ‘database_name_here’ );
/** MySQL database username */
define( ‘DB_USER’, ‘username_here’ );
/** MySQL database password */
define( ‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password_here’ );
/** MySQL hostname */
define( ‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’ );
You need to make sure that the information for the database name, username, password, and database host is correct.
I could not find wp-config.ph in wordpress. I did create the database wordpress–it is on the database list.
I found a PHP with a different name that may be the config file. What do I change those to?
How about this?
Did you create the database as described? Did you then go to http://localhost/wordpress/? If so, you should be taken to the setup page where you can enter your database access data.
However, if you don’t want to go through the setup process as described by me and in the video, you can of course configure it manually. To do this, simply follow the instructions here: https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/before-install/howto-install/#detailed-step-3
I created a data base named wordpress that is on the database list.
There is also a second question, which would be more important.
I installed Local, that somebody in these forums reccomended. Local is affiliated with wordpress and it said that wordpress is now installed. How do I make a local site with the wordpress tools? TIA!
I am trying to use wordpress locally
I’m not sure what you mean by “local”. If you’re referring to “Local WP” (from here: https://localwp.com/), that’s definitely an alternative to the XAMPP approach you described earlier in this topic here. LocalWP was developed by WPEngine, not wordpress.org. If you want to work with LocalWP, all you have to do is launch the software and you can use WordPress locally.
As opposed to online–localhost
Isn’t Local the same company as wordpress? I think it finished installing WP when I installed it.
