Problems with installing/running wordpress on localhost LAMP stack

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Hi,
I’m trying to run a localhost web server for training purposes but I can’t get it to work.
Firstly I installed Apache2, MariaDB, PHP7 phpmyadmin and wordpress from Yast. When I write localhost in firefox I get this:
https://i.imgur.com/zPy3WdW.png
That’s ok, but when I type localhost/wp-admin to configure wordpress I get an error
https://i.imgur.com/7AxZCVY.png
https://i.imgur.com/o49OFTk.png
https://i.imgur.com/FhW0hSH.png
Then I deleted all installed packages from Yast and started over installing via console following this guide

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:LAMP_setup

In this case I have working apache2 and also MariaDB and phpMyAdmin. I create an empty database with my site name and a user for the database. I can’t figure out where to install wordpress to make it work. I noticed that if I install wordpress from Yast it is installed in /srv/www and it’s not working. I moved the /wordpress folder to /srv/www/htdocs and it also is not working.
Now I deleted all installed packages again from Yast and started over for third time this time installing XAMPP server. Again its not working. When i start all from XAMPP Control panel, I get this error for ProFTPD:

Starting all servers...
Starting MySQL Database...
/opt/lampp/mysql/scripts/ctl.sh : mysql  started at port 3306
Starting Apache Web Server...
/opt/lampp/apache2/scripts/ctl.sh : httpd started
Starting ProFTPD...
Exit code: 8
Stdout:
Checking syntax of configuration file
proftpd config test fails, aborting
Stderr:
linux-npks proftpd[3606]: warning: unable to determine IP address of 'linux-npks'
linux-npks proftpd[3606]: error: no valid servers configured
linux-npks proftpd[3606]: Fatal: error processing configuration file '/opt/lampp/etc/proftpd.conf'

That does’t boder me much until I tried to change the new block wordpress editor with the classic one by installing the classic editor plugin. In this case I got a FTP login screen that I don’t know what to do, because I didn’t set up an FTP server and I don’t need it.
So, I now will uninstall all again and please, can someone guide me to install a working wordpress environment on opensuse leap 15

Thanks in advance
Ilian

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Install the LAMP server pattern from YaST, enable mysql.service and start it, use YaST’s HTTP server module to enable the apache2.service, http://localhost should show “It works!”

The fact that Apache shows up in /opt is proof that you installed some external package/tarball.

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Thanks for the reply.
What have I done so far?

  1. I deleted all server and database related packages via YAST
  2. I installed the Web and LAMP server pattern via YAST
  3. Strange but after I don’t have an HTTP server in YAST>Network services
  4. I opened localhost in firefox and got It Works!
  5. I activated apache and MYSQL services to start at boot
  6. Reboot
  7. I installed phpMyAdmin via YAST
  8. I opened localhost/phpmyadmin in browser
  9. I logged in then created a database named gameuniversebg and a user gameuniversebg with all privileges for this DB
  10. server is located at /srv/www/htdocs so to install Wordpress I placed it in this folder
  11. I opened localhost/wordpress in browser and got an error message:

Sorry, but I can’t write the wp-config.php file.
You can create the wp-config.php file manually and paste the following text into it.

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I edited the file wp-config-sample.php and saved it as wp-config.php
I got the FTP login screen again
I opened my Windows 10 XAMPP server installation folder and copied the contents of /htdocs folder to /srv/www/htdocs

And the FTP login is no longer required. Thanks, case solved.

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  1. The case was solved.
  2. Useless to advise after four years.
  3. Thread closed.
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