Fri Jun 12 09:10:21 AM MDT 2026 Today is Friday! (Friyay!) But it feels like they come so slow. It’s sad when you look forward to the weekend. I’m not sure how that ever came on the radar, but that’s what this life feels like at times. I wish I didn’t feel this way most weeks, but that’s how I feel. It would be nice to be able to get over whatever is causing this, but what am I going to do about it? So many questions that don’t have a way of making sense. There is never a way to make sense of it all I suppose, that’s what this life is all about. If I had a way to make the future possible? I would so be on that. I’m not sure how that works though. There needs to be a way to make this life manageable. I doubt there seems to be a way to overcome anything. So many possibilities and thought processes out there, I doubt there is a way to overcome a lot in this life. Fri Jun 12 10:09:44 AM MDT 2026 I wish I could understand what this life is meant to turn out to be! I don’t get it most da...
Wow... so I was having issues installing WordPress on my local testing machine. Ran across an error saying that MySQL wasn't setup correctly and that WordPress needed it. Took me a while but I did eventually find a solution on a message board. Here they be:
These were the steps which I followed to install Wordpress without it resulting in that nasty error message.
- Install Apache
- Install My-SQL. Note: in Wordpress' installation instructions this step comes after PHP installation. However, I read somewhere someone suggesting to install PHP after My-SQL. Don't know if this was the determining factor, but it was the way I took.
- Install PHP. Here is were I think you'll make it or break it. When installing PHP,
- be sure to point to Apache's conf directory when asked where its configuration directory resides, don't just point to Apache's install directory,
- when asked which items to install, navigate down into Extensions and select MySQL and MySQLi. By default, these won't be installed.
- Copy wordpress directory contents into Apache's htdocs directory (just my choice, but there are ofcourse other variations which will work).
- Restart Apache.
- navigate to http://localhost/wp-admin/install.php This time it should work.
So yeah... that's how it all works... or something like that. lol All in all, it worked out, and now I was able to install WordPress on my localhost without problem. And there you have it.
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