Per bug 22884, using "localhost" probably won't work on Windows. However, it's not...
authorChad Horohoe <demon@users.mediawiki.org>
Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:48:03 +0000 (16:48 +0000)
committerChad Horohoe <demon@users.mediawiki.org>
Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:48:03 +0000 (16:48 +0000)
commitdb2fd9007fc4455bb1a9b09bac0cdd84c2b0a081
tree7c0d355a7ff97c779607564da0b0f444152b50ca
parentee7e7c9085ba7f820db7dbc1f6de7a52a84e39cc
Per bug 22884, using "localhost" probably won't work on Windows. However, it's not a PHP bug, or even really something we should handle. It's up to the person performing the installation to ensure a connection to MySQL exists; we shouldn't presume 127.0.0.1 is a valid replacement in all Windows scenarios. So, we'll update the help info with a friendly suggestion for those who might hit this.
includes/installer/Installer.i18n.php