Title: cannot install wordpress
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# cannot install wordpress

 *  [nautica](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nautica/)
 * (@nautica)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-install-wordpress/)
 * I tried with many methods but I am never suceeeful to install Wem?ordPress I 
   get is one :
    We’re having a little trouble selecting the proper database for
   WordPress. Are you sure it exists? Your database name is currently specified 
   as optimind. Is this correct? On some systems the name of your database is prefixed
   with your username, so it would be like username_wordpress. Could that be the
   problem? what is the “database host” ? THanks for any help

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 *  [jerryhung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jerryhung/)
 * (@jerryhung)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-install-wordpress/#post-43792)
 * database host is usually “localhost” (99%)
    it’s possible that your DB names 
   contain your username e.g. I have a jerryhung account, therefore all my MySQL
   DB are jerryhung_wordpress (when I entered the DB name of “wordpress”) best way
   is to go into phpMyAdmin (if you have it) to see if the DB/tables are there
 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-install-wordpress/#post-43815)
 * A quick mail to the teh support at your web hosts should fix the problem. You
   can ask them for the values of the parameters that the wp-config file asks you
   for.
    My install for one, does not have “localhost” and I had to write the support
   guys a mail to find out the values. Hope you get it up and running 🙂
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-install-wordpress/#post-43872)
 * This is exactly my problem… i tried installing via install.php but alas no worky
   hehe then in wp-config.php itself it says the databse name should be wordpress–
   so I make a database called wordpress which is then called funky_wordpress by
   my server…
    When I go to tey install.php i get this:- “Error establishing a database
   connection! This probably means that the connection information in youn wp-config.
   php file is incorrect. Double check it and try again. Are you sure you have the
   correct user/password? Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
   Are you sure that the database server is running?” Now I know my database username
   and password are correct – server localhost is right because i have it working
   on other databases… Is there some place in wordpress we can change the database
   name its looking for from ‘wordpress’ to funky_wordpress for example? I hope 
   this makes sense… Blogger in need FunkyPink x

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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