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If it is giving 'database connection' error, username or password must be wrong but saying that you should have the same error message in both instances giving they are pointing to the same place i assume you did <a href="http://localhost/mysite/" rel="ugc">http://localhost/mysite/</a>&nbsp;when you were in the server?
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If it is giving 'database connection' error, username or password must be wrong but saying that you should have the same error message in both instances giving they are pointing to the same place i assume you did http://localhost/mysite/ [http://localhost/mysite/] when you were in the server?

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I solve my own problem.

The solution is posted with an explantion of how I arrived at that solution.

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Hello experts,<br />
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I recently installed xampp on our webserver.<br />
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I tried to load wordpress using <a href="http://localhost/mysite/" rel="ugc">http://localhost/mysite/</a><br />
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The page came up just fine.<br />
<br />
However, we would like our users to be able to view the wordpress site from their own PCs. That's why we loaded xampp on the server instead of on local PC.<br />
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So when I changed the url from localhost to servername (<a href="http://servername/mysite/" rel="ugc">http://servername/mysite/</a>, I get Error establishing database connection.<br />
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Everything looks good including servername.<br />
<br />
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?<br />
<br />
Thanks in advance
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Hello experts,

I recently installed xampp on our webserver.

I tried to load wordpress using http://localhost/mysite/

The page came up just fine.

However, we would like our users to be able to view the wordpress site from their own PCs. That's why we loaded xampp on the server instead of on local PC.

So when I changed the url from localhost to servername (http://servername/mysite/, I get Error establishing database connection.

Everything looks good including servername.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

Error establishing database connection using XAMPP on web server

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