Wordpress with Xampp local server

Question

Until now when I've created a new site it was always on a preconfigured hosting service. Currently, I'm working on a website for a friend of mine. Since he has not yet bought the domain and a hosting service I'm trying to set up XAMPP and Wordpress on my local computer. I've found a detailed guide HERE. I've installed the XAMPP then the Apache and MySQL. When I get to the part where I'm adding a password to SQL(timeframe on the youtube clip - 9:11) :

and I get the password prompt on my phpMyAdmin in the localhost. There whatever password and username I try it does not work.

However, I've tried to skip this step and do not add any password. I've gone directly to try and make a database for WordPress. Then I get the loading screen infinitely and it does not create or saves the changes I made in phpMyAdmin.

So my question is does anybody have an Idea what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 12 '18 at 20:06

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change the password in config.inc file. By default there is no password for the user 'root' in xampp

answered May 12 '18 at 20:06

Bashar

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If you check the pictures you can clearly see that I've changed the password – Ivan Ivanov May 12 '18 at 20:33
it's blank in the picture so i thought you didn't change it in config.inc file – Bashar May 12 '18 at 20:40
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I guess you have the same problem https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49811804/phpmyadmin-failed-to-set-session-cookie-maybe-you-are-using-http-instead-of-htt – Bashar May 12 '18 at 20:42
So the solution is to clear the browser cache... I've wasted half a day on this stupid error – Ivan Ivanov May 12 '18 at 20:49

Wordpress with Xampp local server

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