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THE WORDPRESS 5 MINUTE INSTALLATION IS A MYTH.

And there’s only one problem, really. Its the database.

I’ve just newly installed XAMPP, and WordPress, on my Windows 7 machine.
Everything looks good. I try to open phpmyadmin and there’s no database of course. I try to follow the directions to get past this, but they all start AFTER you have a database installed.

I created a database using the MySQL Workbench. I can see it and work with it in the Workbench, but I can’t find it on the disk anywhere. When I try to hook it up using wp-config.php, it isn’t found so its probably a path issue.

Why can’t this be done with a SAMPLE database all hooked up and ready to go, so one can see how it works, and then just switch out the file names. Why does this have to be so difficult?

This was actually due to me not having the right password for mysql.

So, its me being a bonehead. I got it working, but I had to uninstall that wordpress installation and start over, because I had the password wrong.

Does anybody know how to hack this mobile feature a bit? It works fine, but I had a background and some other pictures working and it stripped everything out. I can’t figure out where the code is for this little dude….

I’ll answer my own question. Have to admit, I’m a dummy.
Once the plugin is installed, a menu item appears under your “Settings” menu for “Widgets on Pages.” Here you can enter a number for as many instances as you want, and then name each one. Then, on the Widgets page, you’ll see a widget for each name has appeared….

This message is odd, but it might be that your php.ini file has the size limit set too low. Its default is smaller than the jetpack file size.

WHAT TO DO:

Find your php.ini file. Search for “upload_max_filesize” in this file. Set to 200M (or more). That should do it.

Also. USE THE ZIP FILE! You’re likely to screw something up if you open it up and try installing it manually.

:<)

I thought I was having a problem with ports, so I tried setting the port for the mysql database. But this got to complicated. YOu have to go into the Apache server setup and change it there. I got all twisted up and finally realized I didn’t know what I was doing.

What if finally boiled down to was that I did not have the user name and password right. I did have to reinstall XAMPP to undo all the changes I made to ports. But after the reinstallation, I created an empty database in phpmyadmin. Then I did an import of the tables from my remote site.
This worked. After importing, if you import the “options” table, you do have to go into wp-admin and change the database location to localhost. If the local host connection has the database connection problem here, open up wordpress/wp-config.php. You’ll see the fields where you set up your user/password and database name and host. I’m using the numerics for localhost here, ‘127.0.0.1’ but ‘https://localhost&#8217; is supposed to work as well.

The @spiteyourface solution isn’t really a solution, as it won’t work if you don’t have a handy functioning wordpress installation to borrow from.

I’m stuck on this too. Here’s a clue, I ran this little php script to test my database connection and IT failed!

$db = @mysql_connect(‘localhost’, ‘root’, ‘Password’);
if (!$db) echo “connection failed”;
else echo “connection succeeded”;

However, the XAMPP control panel reports that MySQL is running.

I’m confused. I know where the wordpress config.ini is to set what database to look for.
Where is the database’s config file, where its user/password is set?
Is this done in phpmyAdmin, by setting up a user/password for a specific database? Or is there another level of passwords for mysql itself that I need to match up?

:<)Thanks!

Thanks for pointing this out on the “Add Drop Table” box being checked. There are a few “step by step” tutorials out there that don’t mention this, and it sticks a lot of people like us.