m20tgd

I managed to find the solution elsewhere.

It’s the 3rd or 4th post down that worked for me. It’s the one that describes changing the PlugIn data for the root user to the standard password for the account.

I did try that and just got a white screen with black text telling me it couldn’t stabilise a connection with the database when I tried to access it from the browser.

I’ll try again as I’ve changed a few other things since. It may be an issue with how the Pi is configured if not, so I’ll get help from another forum.

This is what it comes up with:

mysql 15824 1 0 00:05 ? 00:00:53 /usr/sbin/mysqld
m20tgd 21400 21362 0 23:33 pts/0 00:00:00 grep –color=auto mysql

I assume that as it’s listed it means it’s working.

Yes, I installed the MySQL PHP package. If you have a look at the link in my first post, I followed all instructions in that.

That opened up MySQL in the command line, if that’s what it was supposed to do.

I don’t have a wp-config.php file, only wp-config.php. I believe the configuration process through the browser should create the non sample file. I tried creating it myself and putting in the relevant information. However, when I tried to connect through the browser I was just met by a white screen with black writing at the top saying that it couldn’t connect to the database.