Title: Five minute installation ‘database error’
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Five minute installation ‘database error’

 *  Resolved [rach_hw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rach_hw/)
 * (@rach_hw)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/five-minute-installation-database-error/)
 * This is the first time I have ever tried to set up a blog and I have got myself
   very confused. I have tried searching through existing help topics and got more
   confused and slightly worried that I might get a nasty reply (I’m a beginner,
   everybody was once, so please be nice)
 * I’ve uploaded the WordPress files through my FTP (Firefox) with the ‘config’ 
   file altered as necessary. I got to the page with the ‘Name your blog’ and ‘Email’
   fields which I filled in and then received a page full of errors along the lines
   of
 * > WordPress database error: [CREATE command denied to user ‘********’@’213.***.**.**’
   > for table ‘wp_terms’]
 * and
 * > WordPress database error: [CREATE command denied to user ‘********’@’213.***.**.**’
   > for table ‘wp_term_taxonomy’]
 * My guess is some sort of problem with the files I uploaded but I just don’t know
   where to begin.
 * Thanks in advance for any help.

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 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/five-minute-installation-database-error/#post-1199922)
 * Assuming that you’ve supplied the right username, password, and database name;
   this isn’t a problem with your files. Your database user doesn’t have permission,
   essentially, to create a tables. You need to talk to your web-host. Without ‘
   create table’ privileges the DB is virtually useless.
 *  [Kailash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kailash1/)
 * (@kailash1)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/five-minute-installation-database-error/#post-1199972)
 * Your Mysql database user doesn’t have enough privileges to perform database operations(
   i.e. create ). Assigning the required privileges should fix your problem.
 *  Thread Starter [rach_hw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rach_hw/)
 * (@rach_hw)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/five-minute-installation-database-error/#post-1199975)
 * I’ve been back to my web host and sorted it out. Thank you!

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [rach_hw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rach_hw/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/five-minute-installation-database-error/#post-1199975)
 * Status: resolved

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