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

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# Can’t Select database ERROR

 *  [Eric Taylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erictaylor/)
 * (@erictaylor)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-select-database-error-1/)
 * Okay this is what I get when i try to access wordpress.
 * Can’t select database
 * We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and
   password is okay) but not able to select the ericvta_wrdp1 database.
 *  * Are you sure it exists?
    * 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?
 * If you don’t know how to setup a database you should contact your host. If all
   else fails you may find help at the WordPress Support Forums.
 * I’m pretty sure the database exists because it shows up in cpanel, and it is 
   the correct name. What can I try now?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-select-database-error-1/#post-264440)
 * Cpanel ?
    [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/)
   there’s a guide there on the left that might help.
 *  [mellow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mellow/)
 * (@mellow)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-select-database-error-1/#post-264841)
 * how can i get cpanelx? cause my site hosting, it did not exist cpanelx
 *  [jaegersb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaegersb/)
 * (@jaegersb)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-select-database-error-1/#post-264920)
 * Hi there,
 * I’m battling with the same problem. The database exists and I tried to prefix
   the DB_NAME with DB_USER etc. but without any luck.
 * Any ideas are more than welcome 🙂
    I’m running on a Debian-Sarge 3.1 server 
   with Apache 2, WP 2.0.2 and mysql 4.0
 * mysql Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.24, for pc-linux-gnu (i386)
 * Connection id: 44
    Current database: wordpress Current user: root@localhost SSL:
   Not in use Current pager: stdout Using outfile: ” Server version: 4.0.24_Debian-
   10sarge1-log Protocol version: 10 Connection: Localhost via UNIX socket Client
   characterset: latin1 Server characterset: latin1 UNIX socket: /var/run/mysqld/
   mysqld.sock Uptime: 2 days 20 hours 34 min 54 sec
 * Threads: 1 Questions: 164 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 17 Flush tables: 1 Open tables:
   6 Queries per second avg: 0.001

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 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [select](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/select/)
 * [server](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/server/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [jaegersb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaegersb/)
 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-select-database-error-1/#post-264920)
 * Status: not resolved

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