Step 4: unable to visit local site (mac)

  • I’ve successfully done all the phpadmin stuff, changed wp-config info, and so on… but my wordpress doesnt come up NOR does the configuration option…. I keep getting errors when I try to do the following: “Lastly, we’ve got to run WordPress’ famous 5-minute install. Visit your local site (localhost:port or localhost:port/wordpress), and enter the following information into the database setup form…”

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    and enter the following information into the database setup form…

    Have you done that?

    Local install:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_WordPress#Installing_WordPress_on_your_own_Computer

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Installation_Techniques#Installing_WordPress_Locally

    I am having the same problem at step 4 (Step 4: Downloading and Installing WordPress
    Now it’s time to download WordPress. Once you’ve downloaded and unzipped the WordPress download, open up the “wordpress” folder. Click and drag all of the files from the wordpress folder to your MAMP document root (I use /Users/USERNAME/Sites/wordpress/).

    Others with the default MAMP install should rename and drag the folder to the htdocs folder, located under /Applications/MAMP. Then in the browser, go to localhost:port/folder_renamed to run the install. For example, in the default MAMP install, if the folder was renamed wordpresstest, go to localhost:8888/wordpresstest.

    Lastly, we’ve got to run WordPress’ famous 5-minute install. Visit your local site (localhost:port or localhost:port/wordpress), and enter the following information into the database setup form:

    Database Name: wordpresstest
    User Name (database): root
    Password (database): root
    Database Host/server: localhost
    Table Prefix: wp_
    Note that the default Database Name is “WordPress” and that you will need to change the Database Name to the name you entered into PHP Admin (in this case, “wordpresstest”). If you have multiple WordPress sites on your local machine, each of which is using its own database, you will need to make the Database Name in the WordPress configuration consistent with your second (or third or fourth) Database Name.

    Once that’s complete, enter a blog name and email address, and you’re ready to use WordPress on your Mac.)

    I don’t even see a place to enter information into a database setup form……

    Ok, I was able to get to my local site to enter the database information and I’m getting this error:

    We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the wordpresstest database.

    Are you sure it exists?
    Does the user root have permission to use the wordpresstest database?
    On some systems the name of your database is prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_wordpresstest. Could that be the problem?
    If you don’t know how to set up a database you should contact your host. If all else fails you may find help at the WordPress Support Forums.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    @cablek,
    Please start your own thread. That way you stand a good chance of getting full attention to your specific issue. Despite any similarity in symptoms, your issue is likely to be completely different because of possible differences in physical servers, accounts, hosts, plugins, theme, configurations, etc. Thus one problem, on one setup is not indicative of the functionality and reliability of an application as a whole. So, please review how and where to post in this support forum: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post

    Moderator Jose Castaneda

    (@jcastaneda)

    THEME COFFEE MONKEY

    How did you setup your environment? Using (X|M)AMPP? It may sound like a configuration issue.

    What steps have you taken to try and fix this issue?

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