database not working?

  • scislac

    (@scislac)


    22 years, 1 month ago

    In case it helps I’m trying to install WP 1.2-RC1 and I’m hosting with Dathorn. My issue is that I follow the installation instructions and it is not working. I’ve set up a wordpress database and a user for it. But when I go to the install script it says “We’re having a little trouble selecting the proper database for WordPress.” “Are you sure it exists?” blah blah… everything in the config file mirrors what I set up, and even on the second question, it acknowledges what I put in the config file (and it looks identical to the database info from phpmyadmin). So at this point I just feel dumb. It all matches, but doesn’t seem to work. So my 5 minute install is at about 20mins already = ) Thanks! -Josh

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  • 1539

    22 years, 1 month ago

    Verify the MySQL host in your wp-config.php file is correct. The default is localhost and that is fine 99.9% of the time (according to WP), but with some servers, such as my web host, I had to use MySQLHost instead of localhost.

    CeeJayCee

    (@ceejaycee)

    22 years, 1 month ago

    scislac, don’t worry. I’ve done that many times too

    Anonymous

    22 years, 1 month ago

    @scislac: Could you tell me how do you create the user, then give him access to the database ?

    Anonymous

    22 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,
    I have exactly the same problem. (“we’re having a litte…”). So I too would like to know how to give the user access to the database!
    Thanks,
    Matthijs

    iki

    (@iki)

    22 years ago

    It depends on whether you’re using cPanel or Plesk.
    I’ve always used Plesk, and have just moved to a new host using cPanel – so I managed to get my database imported and everything in there using phpmyadmin, only to have this same problem. The database was there, and the user was there; trouble was, they weren’t associated with eachother!
    Turns out in cPanel you have to explicitly add a user to the database… in Plesk you had to be inside the database before you could even add a user, so it sort of did this by itself.

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