WampServer

I want to add the back up of my published (Joomla) site to a project on my Wamp local host - how do I do that? I have the site I built originally still on there - but it is a much earlier version and I want to have an updated version that matches the published site so I can try out new things. For anyone who is kind enough to answer - please bear in mind I am a non professional, non coder wit
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Many thanks for your direction - I visited and followed your tutorial but got stuck after creating the password - after that I couldn't do anything, so I uninstalled and reinstalled WampServer and got to it that way. I'm going to have another go without the password side trip though, to see if I can manage to have more than one project on the go. We'll see!
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Sorry - I may not have been clear above - after clicking NEXT from that point in teh installation, I get: "Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to database" So I presume I am not entering the details correctly. Thanks again if you can point me in the right direction.
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I'm also tearing my hair out at this point. What is the Joomla setup script? I'm working from Barrie North's book as well as the J1.5 installation manual but can't see that I've missed anything. I have deleted an old project and downloaded a new version of Joomla!, extracting it to wamp/www/project name I have started the instalation routine but can't seem to get the right entries in th
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