PatWill

@rhsingh0112,
What is your system configuration (RDBMS and version, PHP, etc.). I am guessing that there is something in your configuration that prevents the WP installer from writing to the database.

Hi Steve,
Sorry, I put this here before I realized I should have placed it in the FixWordPress forum.

To answer your question, what I’ve done with my local install is really quite simple. I don’t see the point of put a simple installation and configuration into yet another platform, which means I’d have platforms on platforms on platforms.

I am not entirely ignorant about PHP and MySQL under Apache. Years ago I hand coded a simple content manager and front end web site for a local non-profit. Instead of having to do that again, I thought I’d use WordPress.

Cheers,
Pat

Hi Guys,
Thanks for all of your input.

The problem appears to have been with using MySQL 8 (or one might say that the WordPress 5 minute install doesn’t know about encrypted passwords). I don’t know a lot myself. The recommended (default) password authentication for MySQL 8 uses SHA256. What I had to do for Famous 5 Minute install to work is reinstall MySQL 8 and change the authentication to MySQL 5 compatible.

Having said that, now I’m stuck at wp-admin/install.php?step=2.

Is there something I can edit in wp-config.php so that WordPress uses the SHA encryption on the password to MySQL?

Thank you, Tara.