Getting error while configuring joomla 1.5

[VineetDubey]

Hi,

 

I was trying to configure joomla on easyphp software in my system as offline.IT was successfull till the step 3 then in step 4 it is showing "Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL" error message. :'(

I had tried and search everywhere in google to recover from this failure but i didn't get anything,

Only few thing i came to know that joomla can run successfully in Xampp only.

Please tell me is that the only option to run joomla or through easyphp we can also use joomla.

also let me know also that could i use joomla without having my own website or not.

 

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Joomla is not dependent on the operating system and in fact you can download Joomla from the easyphp site - http://www.easyphp.org/modules.php

 

Best guess is the username/password you entered either isn't assigned to a database/the database doesn't exist at all or you entered the wrong username/password.

[VineetDubey]

I entered following settings

 

username=root

password=nothing

database name=joomla15

i have created folder with name joomla15 in www folder, and pasted the joomla files which i have downloaded, please tell me is there any problem with easyphp version because my easyphp version is 2.0

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Joomla has minimal requirements - http://www.joomla.org/technical-requirements.html

[VineetDubey]

Thanks for the help,

 

As i was not able to understand what was the problem with easyphp that's why I have installed joomla in wamp and now it is working fine.