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Josh Miclette
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Josh Miclette
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Posted by Josh Miclette
Josh Miclette
Courses Plus Student 6,227 Points

XAMPP and MAMP Port Issues

Hey Treehouse Community, I need some help.

I've been trying to solve this for the past few hours, but have made very little progress. Here is what I've done so far:

  1. Downloaded and installed XAMPP There were port issues, so I changed Apache to 81 and MySQL to 3307, which worked and I was able to run them both.

  2. Downloaded and installed MAMP I used port 8080 for Apache, and 3306 for MySQL. It worked. I was able to Open Start Page and setup the database.

  3. Downloaded and installed Wordpress. After finishing the steps, I was able to log into WordPress. But once I was in WordPress, my left nav only displayed Dashboard and Users.

My question is does XAMPP and MAMP's Apache and MySQL ports have to match? I can see my files when I go here: http://localhost:81/ but when I click on the wplocal folder, I get this message: Error establishing a database connection

Any help will be greatly appreciated!