Go back to your XAMPP control panel and select the Admin button of the MySQL module to launch phpMyAdmin ‒ an administration tool for managing MySQL and MariaDB databases. We recommend renaming the new folder with your website’s name to make web development on the XAMPP server easier. Upload the extracted WordPress files there. Navigate to your XAMPP folder in the C drive ( C:\xampp) and locate the htdocs folder. Download the latest WordPress version, then extract the ZIP file.
Once the server is up and running, the next step is installing WordPress. Disabling your firewall temporarily or stopping the program that uses port 80 should resolve this issue. If you’re running on the Windows operating system, there’s a chance you might encounter the localhost refused to connect error.
