Xampp installed and running, cannot connect using mysqli

Question

Just install xampp version 7 apache running on port 8000 MySQL running port 3306, phpmyadmin works, just created database, when I try run php website, just get "waiting for localhost" tried firefox too, same, nothing, any help please?

here is the opencart config.php less my connections

define('DB_DRIVER', 'mysqli');
define('DB_HOSTNAME', 'localhost:8000');
define('DB_DATABASE', 'auctioneerslive');
define('DB_PORT', '3306');
define('DB_PREFIX', 'oc_');

Gary

Answer 1

You messed up this line in the config define('DB_HOSTNAME', 'localhost:8000'); Your basically telling the script to connect to localhost:8000:3306 . Remove the :8000 part.

your config should look like this:

define('DB_DRIVER', 'mysqli');
define('DB_HOSTNAME', 'localhost');
define('DB_DATABASE', 'auctioneerslive');
define('DB_PORT', '3306');
define('DB_PREFIX', 'oc_');

Answer 2

Thank you Radu Bogdan answer below

define('DB_USERNAME', 'root'); define('DB_PASSWORD', '');