mateoco wrote:I can reach phpmyadmin by pressing "Admin" in the "MySQL" row in the control panel. So I guess that fine.
By "can reach" you mean you also get automatically logged in, can see all the databases in the left panel?
mateoco wrote:when I type "http://localhost:8080/GlobalIdeology/wordpress/" I see that "INDEX OF /GLOBALIDEOLOGY" page with a "wordpress folder". When I press it I get to "unable to connect", which is also what i get when I type "http://localhost:8080/GlobalIdeology/wordpress/".
So, wordpress is extracted to \xampp\htdocs\GlobalIdeology\wordpress\ ?
How does the "unable to connect" error page look like? Maybe you can take a screenshot of it and upload it to any of the image file hosting services to show it to us?
mateoco wrote:But if I understand you correctly, I should get to the "login to wordpress" page, right?
Depends on the wordpress installation, it's extensions etc. Normally you get to the Wordpress Frontend which shows the current webpage configured in wordpress.
The login to the backed should be behind the url
http://localhost:8080/GlobalIdeology/wo ... /wp-admin/mateoco wrote:Altrea wrote:Maybe you have done something like defining a virtualhost, and need to use a different local domain name to request your wordpress site?
I only entered the localhost site ONCE, and that was directly after installation. I do not remember defining a virtualhost, but perhaps I did it inadvertably. How can I check it?
You can open the file \xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf . Are there any lines without a # in front?
If you said you could only enter your wordpress localhost url once, maybe the installation itself was not successful at any point.
mateoco wrote:Altrea wrote:Maybe you have changed something like the password for the database user wordpress is using, or deleted the user entirely. Maybe the issue is related to your wordpress configuration.
Maybe. I'm willing to check everything.
Okay, let's see. Is there any file named .htaccess inside your folder \xampp\htdocs\GlobalIdeology\wordpress ? If yes, what is the contents of this file?
Can you search for a file wp-config.php in your wordpress folder? There should be some lines similar to this
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define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'username_here');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
These should define the database credentials used to login to the database.
You could check if the database name mentioned in the setting DB_NAME is existing in your phpmyadmin database list
You can check if the user defined in DB_USER is existing in the phpmyadmin User Accounts tab
There should also be some settings for the wordpress base url you can check
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define( 'WP_HOME', 'http://yoursiteurl.com' );
define( 'WP_SITEURL', ‘http://yoursiteurl.com' );
mateoco wrote:But unfortunately the guys at the wordpress.org forum didn't go through all those options but imminently went to suggest backing up the current progress and reinstalling the program, which seems pretty extreme...
Well, normally this is the best solution at your state of installation. The guys from wordpress are expecting that the wordpress installation process is quite easy and should only take some minutes. And of course this is the much easier way for the helpers too to get back to a defined state. Maybe this is not that frustrating if you get guidance by us. It's up to you