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Jonathan Pearson
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Jonathan Pearson
Courses Plus Student 6,704 Points
Posted by Jonathan Pearson
Jonathan Pearson
Courses Plus Student 6,704 Points

I was following along right until the Mamp control panel

When Zac said pull up the Mamp control panel I had no idea where that came from. Where do you get that?

5 Answers

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Jonathan,

This is so you're able to work with WordPress locally.

You can find MAMP for Mac here and XAMPP for PC here.

Hope that helps

-Rich

Jonathan Pearson
Jonathan Pearson
Courses Plus Student 6,704 Points
Jonathan Pearson
Jonathan Pearson
Courses Plus Student 6,704 Points

That's whats confusing about the video. I followed the pc instructions but in the following video he goes back to using a mac so im at a loss at what to do fairly fast in the video.

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Jonathan,

This one has the PC instructions if you need it.

-Rich

Debby Beachy
Debby Beachy
Courses Plus Student 2,096 Points
Debby Beachy
Debby Beachy
Courses Plus Student 2,096 Points

I'm a bit confused here too as I'm on my PC. XAMPP is installed as I'm following along, but the next tutorial goes right back to Mac. I'm not sure how to use the interface of XAMPP it's completely different than MAMP. Also he said to go into our newly setup sites folder in this video which in the last video he didn't have us setup and sites folder.

It's a bit confusing..but I've long learned you just have to plow through. Where do I get tutorials on how to use XAMPP?

saber
saber
13,276 Points
saber
saber
13,276 Points

Most of the confusion for PC users likely comes from not knowing how to get to phpmyadmin.

You can just type localhost/phpmyadmin

for your url and that'll get you there. Hope this helps.

Niger Hall
Niger Hall
3,800 Points
Niger Hall
Niger Hall
3,800 Points

@Rich Bagley this is way too confusing for PC users and surely treehouse can correct this by noting in the video that at this point PC users should refer to the above video link

melissa brown
melissa brown
4,670 Points
melissa brown
melissa brown
4,670 Points

I’m totally lost too. Im using xxamp and because I was following the wordpress development track I already did the one click wordpress intall. I have managed to set up the localwp files on xxamp. Arrived at the login configuration page for wordpress. But I don’t know what the password is for mysql . I already have a username set up through cpanel. Which set up automatic has 1.68g of space in it. should delete it and set up a new user name? I tired to go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ but I got this error msg. im completely lost on this course. i have know idea what im doing.

MySQL said:

2002 - No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

The server is not responding (or the local server's socket is not correctly configured). Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed.

Shay Bush
Shay Bush
9,967 Points
Shay Bush
Shay Bush
9,967 Points

Okay, having the same issue and after reading all of your questions and comments, it really is the exact same thing. As Brock Keasler put it: copy and paste localhost/phpmyadmin in your URL

and follow the exact directions as in the video, it is the same I promise. PC for life....