Title: Database is not recognized
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Database is not recognized

 *  [linuxgeek92345](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linuxgeek92345/)
 * (@linuxgeek92345)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-is-not-recognized/)
 * Hello all WordPressers!
    I am trying to install this software locally on a computer
   with slacware linux 10.2. It is running apache with php version 4.4.2 I also 
   have mysql version 4.1.14, and I have already created a new user, mysql, as the
   root user for the mysql application. I also created a database called wordpress
   for the CMS to use. I put this info into the wp-config.php file, and I always
   get the message that there was an error establishing a database connection. I
   have done a million searches and tried to install different versions of mysql
   to fix this, but nothing is working. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -
   Jason

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 *  [Yohn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trey/)
 * (@trey)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-is-not-recognized/#post-380757)
 * I had that when I first tried to install mine a couple minutes ago, so I went
   and changed my users password, tried again, and I was able to complete the instalation.
   so check to make sure you have the password set up correctly, and that you have
   the host as localhost since it is on your computer.
 *  Thread Starter [linuxgeek92345](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linuxgeek92345/)
 * (@linuxgeek92345)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-is-not-recognized/#post-380762)
 * I am quite sure that all of my passwords are correct. I can use the mysql database
   from the command line in linux. I assume this means that mysqld is running, and
   I have written things into the wordpress database with the user and password 
   that is defined in the wp-config.php file. Is there a port that I need to open
   in linux, or perhaps to forward through my router?
    -Jason P.S. Thanks for the
   help!
 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-is-not-recognized/#post-380766)
 * Not really my area of expertise, but I know with my local install on Mac X.4.6,
   the install path and socket were slightly different than an older version of 
   Mac OS, so I had to adjust the path from localhost in wp-config.php file.

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

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-is-not-recognized/#post-380766)
 * Status: not resolved

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