Hi,
I have upgraded my local XAMPP installation, from v1.7.3 to v5.6.8. First I renamed the old XAMPP directory (containing v1.7.3) from J:\xampp to J:\xampp.old, and then installed XAMPP v5.6.8 to J:\xampp. The installation completed successfully, and I then ran XAMPP as administrator, started MySQL and PHP, and visited http://localhost and addressed the security warnings (setting a password for the MySQL superuser and setting XAMPP directory protection). Returning to the XAMPP status page, all was fine. The user accounts and passwords are the same as for my old installation.
Next I copied the subfolder containing my local site from the old XAMPP htdocs folder (J:\xampp.old\htdocs) to the new XAMPP folder (J:\xampp\htdocs). This subfolder is called joomla25 and contains a Joomla-based site which works fine (before upgrading XAMPP I double-checked it by visiting http://localhost/joomla25). I then went to http://localhost/joomla25 and received the following error: "Database connection error (3): Could not connect to database".
Can anyone please help me? Many thanks in advance!
Stefan