Title: Database Connection
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Database Connection

 *  [dcopus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcopus/)
 * (@dcopus)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-9/)
 * I am a novice to MAMP and WordPress and am currently trying to install both.
 * I have got as far as trying to configure wordpress but have been unable to setup
   the database connection and am not sure what I have got wrong.
 * I have created a database in wordpress “davidcopus’
    I have taken the username
   and password from MAMP’s MySQL and entered them and the database name in wordpress
   into the setup config page, leaving the database host name and table prefix config
   as is,and every time it comes up with an error. As such am unable to fully install.
 * I am desperate to get this done and also to then configure it with dreamweaver
   but have been ubale to find any support that i, as a novice can follow, and that
   actually works.
 * Can anyone offer any constructive advice?

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 *  [Nikki Blight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kionae/)
 * (@kionae)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-9/#post-2451776)
 * When you created the new user in mysql, did you remember to grant it access privileges
   to the davidcopus database you created? I sometimes skip that step and am left
   wondering what’s going on for a minute or two.

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## Tags

 * [configuration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/configuration/)
 * [connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/connection/)
 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [Setup](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/setup/)

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 * Last reply from: [Nikki Blight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kionae/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-9/#post-2451776)
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