I just installed Xampp and Wordpress on my Windows 8.1 laptop. Not sure where the issue is. If I type in http://mywebsite.com/wordpress I get sent to my ip's search page hosted by Yahoo. If I type in http://localhost:3306/wp-admin or http://mywebsite.com/wp-admin I get this type of error,
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Feel stupid, spent a week trying to figure out why I couldn't get into Wordpress. Different error, that turned out to being the wrong user name being used in the wp-config.php file. I'm posting this here, because I the install was so seamless. I downloaded both Xampp and Wordpress 4.1 about 3 weeks ago from the Bitnami website.
Really confused now as to where the error, or what I did wrong is at. I've tried googling this error. Seems that the "packets out of order" error is more common to Mamp and some type of Apple product.