Hello - newbie here!
I was recommended Wordpress to create a new version of my website and want to test it locally on my computer before putting it out onto the web. The wordpress help forums recommended xampp but I am having sooo much trouble with it. This is where I have got to - please help me!
My OS is Windows XP Professional with SP3
I have downloaded XAMPP and it appears to have installed fine. I could get Apache to run so I went to c:\xampp\apache\conf and opened httpd and changed the ports from 80 to 8080 and the servername to localhost:8080. I then went into \extra and opened httpd-ssl and changed the ports etc there from 443 to 4430. I do have Skyper installed but have unticker the 'use ports 80 and 443'.
I can now for the first time access XAMPP by going to http://localhost:8080 but when I go to php my admin I get this error message: MySQL said #2003 - Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061). When I go to status it tells me that everything is deactivated except HTTPS (SSL) and SMTP Service which are activated.
If I go the XAMPP control panel and do a port check I get the following
Apache <HTTP> port 80 program C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\inetinfo.exe. I get the same for Apache <HTTPS> save that the port number is 443. Port 8080 (which I specified as my local host etc above) is listed as being used by Tomcat, which I don't know anything about and which is not listed as active on my control panel.
Any ideas what I should do? I am new to this and have spent three days trying to download it - I need help in words of one syllable please!
Thanks in advance