Wow, thanks, 2ninerniner2!
That worked. Question, though:
Isn’t there a security reason for creating a unique user and password instead of using “root?” Every set of instructions I found said to create a user and give it all privileges over the db, which I had attempted, over and over again, failing each time. Still baffled as to why it never worked.
So, if I move this site and db to a remote server, will I need to rename the password, and change the wp-config.php? Anything else?
thanks again, SO MUCH!!!!