Title: Errors from MySQL During Installation Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Errors from MySQL During Installation * [golddave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/golddave/) * (@golddave) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-from-mysql-during-installation/) * I keep getting WordPress errors with SQL when I try to install. all of the errors are similar to the one below. Any help would be appreciated. * Thanks, Dave * WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near‘/ wpmu_categories ( cat_ID int(4) NOT NULL auto_increment, c] CREATE TABLE wp_/ wpmu_categories ( cat_ID int(4) NOT NULL auto_increment, cat_name varchar(55) NOT NULL default ”, category_nicename varchar(200) NOT NULL default ”, category_description text NOT NULL, category_parent int(4) NOT NULL default ‘0’, PRIMARY KEY (cat_ID), UNIQUE KEY cat_name (cat_name), KEY category_nicename (category_nicename) ) Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * [Kitten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kitten/) * (@kitten) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-from-mysql-during-installation/#post-128429) * `wp_/wpmu` * it looks like you have a slash in the ‘table prefix’ part of your wp-config.php file. Make sure it’s just `wp_` there, and retry. * Thread Starter [golddave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/golddave/) * (@golddave) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-from-mysql-during-installation/#post-128437) * I see what you’re saying but I cannot find a reference anywhere that includes the ‘/’ that is being added. It’s not in the wp-config.php file and i haven’t been able to find it in any of the other files. * [Kitten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kitten/) * (@kitten) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-from-mysql-during-installation/#post-128451) * Strange. It also seems that you’re installing WP-MultiUser, is this right? * The slash is your problem, it’s in there somewhere. * Thread Starter [golddave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/golddave/) * (@golddave) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-from-mysql-during-installation/#post-128456) * Yes, I’m trying WP-MultiUser. I unzipped the files locally and did a global search on all the files looking for “wp_/” and it turned up nothing. * [Kitten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kitten/) * (@kitten) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-from-mysql-during-installation/#post-128463) * look for “CREATE TABLE” statements, and see if anything is goofy in that general region. Start with upgrade-schema.php in wp-admin. * Thread Starter [golddave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/golddave/) * (@golddave) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-from-mysql-during-installation/#post-128648) * I have found nothing goofy with the create table statements. * [isharra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isharra/) * (@isharra) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-from-mysql-during-installation/#post-128680) * table prefix isn’t in wp-config.php, it appears to be dynamically set based on the url used in wpmu-settings.php (line 28). The default installation presumes that you have installed wpmu into a directory that resolves to [http://domain.name/wpmu/](http://domain.name/wpmu/) if that isn’t true you may need to edit wpmu-settings.php * (note: this is after 15 minutes of looking at the tarball and doing one quick install with no errors. I could be completely wrong) * Thread Starter [golddave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/golddave/) * (@golddave) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-from-mysql-during-installation/#post-128727) * I removed all of the wpmu files and tried again (starting all the way at downloading the .zip file and decompressing it again). This time I did something different than last time. Last time I manually edited the config file. This time I did something else. I don’t remember which page I opened first but I opened a page which started a wizard of sorts and that stepped me through everything. After doing it this way it worked. Now all I need to do is figure out how to create multiple blogs. * [JuanManuel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juanmanuel/) * (@juanmanuel) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-from-mysql-during-installation/#post-128801) * Hi! How you managed to resolve this error. I keep getting that error at the end of installation. * [rayhayes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rayhayes/) * (@rayhayes) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-from-mysql-during-installation/#post-128923) * I installed several times getting a series of errors. At this point I can get to the admin page if I enter the url: [http://www.knowmyworld.com/main/wp-admin/index.php](http://www.knowmyworld.com/main/wp-admin/index.php) but not if I enter * [http://www.knowmyworld.com/wp-admin/index.php](http://www.knowmyworld.com/wp-admin/index.php) * and if I hit the main site it get some type of infinite loop. This shows up in my logs: * [http://www.knowmyworld.com](http://www.knowmyworld.com) 24.128.146.243 – – [ 21/Feb/2005:18:57:03 -0500] “GET /index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index. php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index. php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index. php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index. php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index. php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index. php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index. php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index. php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index. php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index. php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index. php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php HTTP/1.1” 302 1138 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;. NET CLR 1.1.4322)” Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘Errors from MySQL During Installation’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 10 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [rayhayes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rayhayes/) * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-from-mysql-during-installation/#post-128923) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics