I have downloaded and installed XAMPP. Then I downloaded and attempted to install Word Press, from both Word Press and through bitnami. Word Press refuses to install. It is asking for passwords I do not have. I do not know how to set up an admin account on XAMPP (PhP, MySQL). I am attempting to do all this as Local Host so that I can practice web site development and use the books I am trying to learn from. I need this Local Host so I can study. So, since installation didn't make it work, how do I make it work?
13:51:54 [main] Initializing Control Panel
13:51:54 [main] Windows Version: Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 32-bit
13:51:54 [main] XAMPP Version: 1.8.3
13:51:54 [main] Control Panel Version: 3.2.1 [ Compiled: May 7th 2013 ]
13:51:54 [main] Running with Administrator rights - good!
13:51:54 [main] XAMPP Installation Directory: "c:\xampp\"
13:51:54 [main] Checking for prerequisites
13:51:54 [main] All prerequisites found
13:51:54 [main] Initializing Modules
13:51:54 [filezilla] XAMPP FileZilla is already running on port 21
13:51:54 [filezilla] XAMPP FileZilla is already running on port 14147
13:51:54 [main] Starting Check-Timer
13:51:54 [main] Control Panel Ready
13:54:59 [netstat] New listening socket: <!--Reserved-->
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13:54:59 [netstat] New listening socket: <!--Reserved-->
13:54:59 [netstat] New listening socket: <!--Reserved-->
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13:55:22 [main] Executing "c:\xampp\"
13:55:29 [main] Executing "services.msc"
15:26:02 [filezilla] Attempting to stop FileZilla app...
15:26:02 [filezilla] Executing "c:\xampp\filezillaftp\filezillaserver.exe -compat -stop"
15:26:02 [filezilla] Return code: 0
This is on a laptop computer solely being used for learning to create my website. So, again, how do I get it to work. It does not work. Typing http://localhost in the address window gets me: "Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to localhost. Did you mean: localho.st"
So again, how do I make it work?