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I have XAMPP up and running, all of the elements are green. However, I get the error message that "The installer was not able to connect to the MySql server. Please make sure MySql is running and introduce a valid password to connect to MySql."
Error Log:
2016-08-11 23:16:55 1210 InnoDB: Warning: Using innodb_additional_mem_pool_size is DEPRECATED. This option may be removed in future releases, together with the option innodb_use_sys_malloc and with the InnoDB's internal memory allocator.
2016-08-11 23:16:55 4624 [Note] InnoDB: Using mutexes to ref count buffer pool pages
2016-08-11 23:16:55 4624 [Note] InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
2016-08-11 23:16:56 4624 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
2016-08-11 23:16:56 4624 [Note] InnoDB: Memory barrier is not used
2016-08-11 23:16:56 4624 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
2016-08-11 23:16:56 4624 [Note] InnoDB: Using generic crc32 instructions
2016-08-11 23:16:56 4624 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 16.0M
2016-08-11 23:16:56 4624 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
2016-08-11 23:16:57 4624 [Note] InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda.
2016-08-11 23:16:57 4624 [Note] InnoDB: The log sequence numbers 1835037 and 1835037 in ibdata files do not match the log sequence number 1835067 in the ib_logfiles!
2016-08-11 23:16:57 4624 [Note] InnoDB: Database was not shutdown normally!
2016-08-11 23:16:57 4624 [Note] InnoDB: Starting crash recovery.
2016-08-11 23:16:57 4624 [Note] InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files...
2016-08-11 23:16:58 4624 [Note] InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages
2016-08-11 23:16:58 4624 [Note] InnoDB: from the doublewrite buffer...
2016-08-11 23:17:02 4624 [Note] InnoDB: 128 rollback segment(s) are active.
2016-08-11 23:17:02 4624 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start
2016-08-11 23:17:02 4624 [Note] InnoDB: Percona XtraDB (http://www.percona.com) 5.6.28-76.1 started; log sequence number 1835067
2016-08-11 23:17:04 4624 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled.
2016-08-11 23:17:04 11760 [Note] InnoDB: Dumping buffer pool(s) not yet started
2016-08-11 23:17:04 4624 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'.
2016-08-11 23:17:04 4624 [Note] C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe: ready for connections.
Version: '10.1.13-MariaDB' socket: '' port: 3306 mariadb.org binary distribution

MySql is running on port 3306

Could someone please point me in the right direction? I will not give up my day job to become a coder or wordpress guru. Mil thanks.

Santitob wrote:However, I get the error message that "The installer was not able to connect to the MySql server. Please make sure MySql is running and introduce a valid password to connect to MySql."

Which Installer??

Sorry, the Bitnami installer of WordPress!