Title: Database Connection Error- Yahoo
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Database Connection Error- Yahoo

 *  [izzybaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/izzybaz/)
 * (@izzybaz)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-yahoo/)
 * Hello. I am trying to get WordPress running on my new Yahoo website and am running
   into giant brick walls. Yahoo goes through the setup process for you, but when
   I try to connect to the blog, I keep getting a database connection error. Yahoo
   says nothing about installing anything on your computer, is that something that
   I need to do? I am using a Mac (Tiger), but I also tried starting a new WordPress
   blog through Yahoo on my PC (Windows XP) and had the same problem: can’t connect
   to the database. Any help, please?? I’m tired of banging my head against my monitor.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-yahoo/#post-335335)
 * Where precisely are you trying to get the blog going ?
 * You cannot use a Yahoo database with a blog on your PC. For a PC based blog you
   will need xampp or similar:
    [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/)
 * If you get that with an online blog at yahoo, you need to examine the details
   very carefully and maybe even send them to yahoo asking them to check.
 *  Thread Starter [izzybaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/izzybaz/)
 * (@izzybaz)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-yahoo/#post-335338)
 * Well, I really want to do the blog on my Mac. I only tried it out on the PC as
   an experiment to see if it was a Mac issue. But Yahoo Small Business Webhosting
   now offers WordPress blogs as a new feature (they also offer Movable Type). I
   also have put in an email to Yahoo asking for help, but they apparently don’t
   want to respond very quickly.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-yahoo/#post-335350)
 * Regradless that you have a PC or a Mac – an online blog and a blog (=WP install)
   hosted on a host server, be it Yahoo or anybody else… are two _different_ things.
   They don’t have anything to do with each other.
 *  [cheesemasterdan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheesemasterdan/)
 * (@cheesemasterdan)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-yahoo/#post-335354)
 * Do you have any access to administer you Yahoo Database at all?? Presumably, 
   as they offer WordPress as a standard bit of software they have all the correct
   hosting, so have they given you a database specific username/password?? It would
   also be useful for you to know the server name your database is hosted on…
    Once
   you have these bits of info you can do some checking… First, make sure that the
   username/password/server are all correct in the wp-config.php file (this is under
   the folder that WP is installed in)… Also make sure that the DB and tables exists
   and is the same as in the config file also… The most likely reason to be getting
   the DB connection error is a setting in this config file, so that’s where I’d
   suggest you start looking… Good luck…

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-yahoo/#post-335354)
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