Title: Can’t create database
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Can’t create database

 *  [mithrandir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mithrandir/)
 * (@mithrandir)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-database/)
 * I try to run install.php using the CLI php app, but I get a line telling me “
   Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.”
   I know this isn’t the case, so I try to make sure I’ve created a database, and
   none of my MySQL interfaces let me. mysql-admin crashes after I connect and start
   interacting with it; mysql-navigator kept telling me I had no permission to create
   a db. And now navigator won’t even launch. Running the CLI “mysql” interface 
   doesn’t help me at all with creating a database. It’s good at telling me there
   is none, but the CREATE DATABASE command–I think that’s the right one–only responds
   with more input lines for me to type into until I give up and CTRL-Z the app.
   I’m certain that all I need to do is create a MySQL database. Yet this simple
   task is completely beyond me. What am I doing wrong?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-database/#post-184629)
 * Please give us lots of info about your server / OS / setup ?
 *  Thread Starter [mithrandir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mithrandir/)
 * (@mithrandir)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-database/#post-184635)
 * Ubuntu. PHP4.3 and MySQL 4.0.23
 * Trying to host locally. I’m calling the host localhost and letting everything
   have the most basic default names possible. I’ve sort of solved the above problem(
   s) by installing phpmyadmin, so now I have a comprehensible tool for creating
   a database. Unfortunately, I now get the following when trying to create the ‘
   wordpress’ database: #1044 – Access denied for user: ‘@localhost’ to database‘
   wordpress’
 * Login was just the MySQL default ‘mysql’ and no password. Not sure why access
   is/was denied. I’m the only user the app recognizes. Going to try running it 
   as root. I’ll search around other threads, too.
 *  [eridan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eridan/)
 * (@eridan)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-database/#post-184641)
 * Creating a mysql user with a password would be a good idea. Now you’re trying
   to connect without a username..
 *  Thread Starter [mithrandir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mithrandir/)
 * (@mithrandir)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-database/#post-184643)
 * >Creating a mysql user with a password would be a
    >good idea. Now you’re trying
   to connect without a >username..
 * Yes, I suppose it would. But I’d rather worry about having the thing WORK before
   I worry about coming up with a password.
 * And no, I am not trying to connect without a username. I am logged in as ‘mysql’
   when I attempt to create the database and that is the error I get. If MySQL is
   confused, please help me figure out what’s confusing it. If I tried connecting
   without a username, I wouldn’t have gotten in in the first place, would I?
 *  Thread Starter [mithrandir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mithrandir/)
 * (@mithrandir)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-database/#post-184778)
 * I’ve logged into phpmyadmin using the user “root” and everything appears to work
   now. I can make databases.
 *  [mbabbitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbabbitt/)
 * (@mbabbitt)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-database/#post-185088)
 * I find the user documentation written by many in the opensource community to 
   be very hard to follow since are writtey by people who are truly dedicated geeks(
   no offense intended; geeks are great but with severe limitations; they are very
   specialized) and not by someone with a knowledge of how to talk to newbies/non-
   specialists of their system. I try many things in many manuals and they simply
   don’t work. They need some usability expert tech writers. The problems arise 
   often due to an instructions problem. When they blame the user’s misunderstanding
   you have to ask where this misunderstanding comes from. The MySQL documentation
   is a perfect example. Some of it is awfully hard to follow or reproduce; when
   you know how it all makes sense! Similarly the 5 minute WordPress install has
   a step, #4, where it states to Upload Everything. WHERE? WHAT? Only geeks would
   not put in the few nouns and adjectives that would clear up this statement. I
   think it means: “Using a FTP transfer client, upload (copy) all of the files (
   in the WordPress directory you just unzipped) to the database you will be using
   for your blog.” Notice how just a few words clears up so much. For newbies, it
   is just about impossible to understand or even know where to begin from the instructions
   given. At least you know above that you need an FTP Transfer client and you had
   better know how to get to the database you will be using. It’s a start.

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-database/#post-185088)
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