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Error displaying the error page: Application Instantiation Error: Could not connect to MySQL. after running lampp security

logtech wrote:Error displaying the error page: Application Instantiation Error: Could not connect to MySQL. after running lampp security

Yes, exactly thats the reason why the "security" option has been removed from Xampp (i.e. at least from the documentation). It is an unstable and buggy implementation and many people destroyed their working installation with this "tool". Do not use the security option any more.

Thank U for replying. I have noticed the whole LAMPP is good for dev environment not the production, but I inherited one in the production so I have to leave with it at least for a while. I seen somewhere on the forum there is a way to fix it. I believe
the way is the MYSQL has to be accessible via network. The script is changing access to the local / remote network.