Having trouble restoring an sql backup via phpMyAdmin on a Bitnami stack install

[Mathew Guise]

I successfully installed Wordpress 4 locally on my Apple OS X 10.9.5 via Bitnami but now I am having trouble restoring a backup.

I created a database with a name that is different than the one I used when I backed up the wordpress site with BackWPup. I did this because I am I am currently using that database name for another site. I was successfully able to import the sql file into the new database I created. For some reason I am unable to login to the Wordpress site with a username and password. As far as I can tell I put the correct db_name, db_user, db_password, db_host, etc. in the config file.

Could it be because I created a database with a different name?

I thought I could try changing the database user and password so I can get into wordpress that way. I log into phpMyAdmin, click on my database, click on wp_users and I get the following message “MySQL returned an empty result set (i.e. zero rows). (Query took 0.0003 seconds.)”

I would like to restore my backup but I don’t know what gives. Thanks for your help in advance.