Bitwdlr

Thank you for your help. I prefer using Yast as it lets me know of conflicts when updating other components. In the past I have had manual installs walked on by openSUSE maintenance. After reinstalling system 3 times, like you I believe there is something not right with openSuse’s system. I have a spare server so will load Debian on it and give it a try.

I am reluctant to close this ticket as resolved. Is there another way to close the ticket?

Thank you for being there for me.

Thank you for your quick response! I access phpMyAdmin with localhost. I have full access, including db specific access items. I put the following code in my website directory and get a “Connected successfully” message:
<?php
$link = mysqli_connect(‘localhost’, ‘username’, ‘password’);
if (!$link) {
die(‘Could not connect: ‘ . mysqli_error());
}
echo ‘Connected successfully’;
mysqli_close($link);
?>
I will try the debug routine.

With my level of frustration right now, not sure I will proceed with fresh install. This problem has me wondering what else I will run into in the future. It shouldn’t be this difficult. I would like to migrate an older hard-to-maintain website to WordPress so easier for someone to step in if I get hit by a truck but if it will always be this difficult, I will stay with homegrown HTML, mysql and PHP.