[guide] Setting up WAMP w/Mysidia

[KatFennec]

Originally Posted by Kasandra

Ha, you would not believe this, but there isn't an issue with those files. I've been at this for the last few days, sifting through tens of webpages to try and fix this problem. I've managed to return Xampp to port 80. YES!

Xampp finally says that it is running perfectly.

The only issue now..

I get this when I attempt to open "mysidia.dev"

Could not connect to database, the following error has occurred: 
SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

Both Apache and MySQL are running, no porblems (or so Xampp says)... so now I've hit yet another brick wall.

EDIT::
OMG I fixed it. Thank you so much Kyttias for digging through this and helping me out. I really appreciate it. <3

I've been having this exact same issue, so I'd love to know what you guys figured out...
EDIT: and for posterity, it seems the solution is to download WAMP 2.5 from sourceforge, then follow the instructions on here. it seems to be working properly now.