Install to localhost

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1       localhost
# ::1             localhost

I would check your MySQL installation and see what it set the port to be used.

With XAMPP MySQL is usually set to localhost and port 3306

I use VirtualHost

Code:

# BCIT CodeIgniter 3.0,4 Dev Testing
<VirtualHost *:80>
   DocumentRoot "\xampp\htdocs\bcit\public_html"
   ServerName ci.dev
   <Directory "\xampp\htdocs\bcit\public_html">
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from all
       AllowOverride All
       Require all granted
   </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

So in my host file I will have this setting

127.0.0.1  ci.dev

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