Title: Database Error Trying to do admin/install
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Database Error Trying to do admin/install

 *  [bmedlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmedlin/)
 * (@bmedlin)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-trying-to-do-admininstall/)
 * 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’, ‘anarchistsguide@72.167.233.37’); 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: [anarchistsguide@72.167.233.37](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-trying-to-do-admininstall/anarchistsguide@72.167.233.37?output_format=md)
 * What could I be missing?
 * Thanks in advance for your help.
    Barbara

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-trying-to-do-admininstall/#post-1025515)
 * 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](http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=148)
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-trying-to-do-admininstall/#post-1025526)
 * > 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.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

The topic ‘Database Error Trying to do admin/install’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [Database Error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database-error/)
 * [install.php error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/install-php-error/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-trying-to-do-admininstall/#post-1025526)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics