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I am creating a WordPress site on localhost.
I am rather puzzled by some aspects.

Sometimes when I try to open https://localhost/*******/wp-admin/ it opens the page correctly.
Sometimes I am required to enter the database username and password.

This happened recently so I opened wp-config.php to see the password and found the password was not there, so it was a refer to my notes.

Am I doing something wrong please?

Many thanks

John

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