wampserver and wordpress install (no replies)

Hi Thanks in advance for who might be able to help.

I've installed Wampserver, I believe successfully. All components (apache, PHP, MySQL) all seem to be functioning. I have opened phpmyadmin and succesfully created two databases 'root' and 'mujumold', both with passwords.

I have succesfully downloaded Wordpress. Un-ziped the file and placed the Wordpress folder in the Wamp64/www folder, and changed the name of the Wordpress folder to Muju.

Everything I read about the Wordpress install says I should simply be able to open the 'install.php' and I should be guided the rest of the way. install.php only opens as notepad document.

Next I read I should create a wp-config file from the wp-config-sample, I have done this (more than a couple of times). Maybe.... I am confused as to what information goes into what location.

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'muju');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'root');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'the password');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost:8080'); (this originally was just localhost, but I have found this as a possibility so I gave it a shot)

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');

If I open up the Wampserver localhost page it shows 'Muju' as a project... Thus I believe Wamperserver is finding the correct location .... it seems I just have something wrong such that Wampserver then does not know what to do when it gets there and simply times out.

Thanks,