Title: Error in Installing WordPress in Localhost Last modified: February 5, 2025 --- # Error in Installing WordPress in Localhost * Resolved [Gourab Neogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gourab7775/) * (@gourab7775) * [1 year, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/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. 4. - 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**. 5. Downloaded the latest version of WordPress. 6. Extracted the **wordpress.zip** file into the XAMPP’s _**htdocs**_ folder. 7. Created a database for WordPress on [http://localhost/phpmyadmin](http://localhost/phpmyadmin) and named it **wordpress** 8. Gave all the db permissions to the user _**root**_ . 9. Opened [http://localhost:85/wordpress/](http://localhost:85/wordpress/) in my Chrome browser and selected my preferred language English 10. After that I entered the following database details: 11. - _Database Name:_ wordpress - _Username_: root - _Password_: **\*\*\*** - _Database Host_: localhost - _Table Prefix_: wp_ 12. 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 year, 4 months ago by [Gourab Neogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gourab7775/). Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/) * (@threadi) * [1 year, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-installing-wordpress-in-localhost/#post-18287598) * You must also specify the changed port for MySQL on the host. So probably `localhost: 3307` * Thread Starter [Gourab Neogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gourab7775/) * (@gourab7775) * [1 year, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-installing-wordpress-in-localhost/#post-18288934) * [@threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/) I changed the port number from 3306 to 3307 in **my.ini**. * Thank You * Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/) * (@threadi) * [1 year, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-installing-wordpress-in-localhost/#post-18289302) * Yes, that’s why you also need to specify this changed port when installing WordPress. WordPress otherwise assumes 3306. * Thread Starter [Gourab Neogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gourab7775/) * (@gourab7775) * [1 year, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-installing-wordpress-in-localhost/#post-18289962) * [@threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/) I have already tried****` _Database Host_: localhost:3307` but still didn’t work. * Not sure what I am doing worng. * Thank You - This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by [Gourab Neogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gourab7775/). * Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/) * (@threadi) * [1 year, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-installing-wordpress-in-localhost/#post-18290351) * Another possibility would be a firewall (perhaps the Windows firewall) that blocks this particular port. I also don’t know why you changed the port in the first place. Port 3306 is not a problem at all, especially with a local installation. * Thread Starter [Gourab Neogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gourab7775/) * (@gourab7775) * [1 year, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-installing-wordpress-in-localhost/#post-18291041) * [@threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/) Thank you for sharing your knowledge to me. I resolved my problem. - This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by [Gourab Neogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gourab7775/). * [Jorge Luiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jluizsouzadev/) * (@jluizsouzadev) * [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-installing-wordpress-in-localhost/#post-18307334) * [@gourab7775](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gourab7775/) please, could you share us how you’ve solved the issue. That piece of information could be _helpful _and _useful _for the WordPress community. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Error in Installing WordPress in Localhost’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/connection/) * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/) * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 7 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [Jorge Luiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jluizsouzadev/) * Last activity: [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-installing-wordpress-in-localhost/#post-18307334) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics