Error in Installing WordPress in Localhost

Hello,

This is the first time I’m trying to install a WordPress site in my Windows 11 laptop using localhost. But unfortunately at the very end I’m repeatedly facing an error. Please help me out.

Steps I followed:

1. Downloaded XAMPP from the official website.
2. Installed it by following on screen instructions
3. Opened the XAMPP Control Panel and started the Apache and MySQL services.
   • First I tried starting Apache in XAMPP using port number 80. But the Apache services were not starting. Hence, I changed the port number from 80 to 85 in httpd.conf.
   • In the same file I changed listen 80 to listen listen 85 and changed the servername from localhost:80 to localhost:85.
   • I also changed the port number in httpd-ssl.conf from 443 to 4433 and the port number for listen from 443 to 4433.
   • For MySQL I changed the port number from 3306 to 3307 in my.ini.
4. Downloaded the latest version of WordPress.
5. Extracted the wordpress.zip file into the XAMPP’s htdocs folder.
6. Created a database for WordPress on http://localhost/phpmyadmin and named it wordpress
7. Gave all the db permissions to the user root .
8. Opened http://localhost:85/wordpress/ in my Chrome browser and selected my preferred language English
9. After that I entered the following database details:
   • Database Name: wordpress
   • Username: root
   • Password: ***
   • Database Host: localhost
   • Table Prefix: wp_
10. Then I clicked the Submit button and faced the following error again and again:error establishing a database connection

Please let me know what I should do to resolve the error.

Thank you,

Gourab

• This topic was modified 1 month ago by Gourab Neogi.