Database Error Trying to do admin/install

  • bmedlin

    (@bmedlin)


    17 years, 2 months ago

    I’ve tried everything multiple times. GoDaddy says it’s not them but here is the error when I try to pull up wp-admin/install.php

    Error establishing a database connection
    This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

    Here is what I placed in the wp-config.php file and uploaded it along with all the other files (I have a fully functioning site I setup this same way but can not seem to figure out what is wrong with the second one:
    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘anarchistsguide’);
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘[email protected]’);
    My password is correct because I am logged into the SQL database:
    anarchistsguide.db.4082093.hostedresource.com
    Server version: 5.0.67.d7-ourdelta-log
    Server: anarchistsguide.db.4082093.hostedresource.com (72.167.233.96 via TCP/IP)
    User: [email protected]

    What could I be missing?

    Thanks in advance for your help.
    Barbara

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  • figaro

    (@figaro)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    That db user doesn’t look right…the user is probably the same as the db name if I remember correctly from the last time I worked on a Godaddy site.
    This: anarchistsguide.db.4082093.hostedresource.com looks like your db connect information.

    This may help as well.

    http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=148

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    SQL database

    I hope that bit is wrong. :>)

    If you are on a windows server you will need to switch to linux. If you are on a linux – absolutely none of the database stuff looks like godaddy’s mysql norms and I’ve done literally 100’s of installs there.

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