wamp and wordpress question

i have installed wampserver and am trying to install wordpress now. i am using a video tutorial to do this. when i try to go into my phpmyadmin on wampserver, im getting an error code.

"#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) ".

I dont really know what this means. i am also trying to create a configuration file with wordpress. im also getting an error with this.

"This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can't contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host's database server is down."

I dont know why im getting these errors. im not sure if i need to sign on with a webhost before i can do this or not. i thought someone else said i didnt need to do that yet. please help me figure this out. thanks!

 

Probably need to assign a database password to the root user in phpmyadmin to secure the database access.

Than enter in that password in the wp-config.php file.

Boulder

 

Hi there,

This might help you solve your problem: http://www.wampserver.com/phorum/read.php?2,30300

 

im not sure how to do that...

 

thanks for the link. its helpful, but now im stuck again.

 

ok, i figured out the wamp problem. can someone help me figure out the wordpress problem? i put in the code in wp and it says the code is right but the db name is wrong. i named the db wp so im not sure what the problem is.

 

Did u update wp-config.php with the new database name?