Title: Getting DB error while installing muwp
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Getting DB error while installing muwp

 *  PresFox
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-db-error-while-installing-muwp/)
 * in step 2 i get a page full of errors about wrong database queries? anyone knows
   why this is?
    this is with the create statement

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 *  [lyricz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lyricz/)
 * (@lyricz)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-db-error-while-installing-muwp/#post-118840)
 * maybe your mysql database’s charactersetting is utf-8 or some others, I’d encounted
   this problem before I changed my mysql charactersetting to Latin1(default) from
   UTF-8.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-db-error-while-installing-muwp/#post-118841)
 * Please quote the errors (copy/paste).
 *  [Aeros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aeros/)
 * (@aeros)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-db-error-while-installing-muwp/#post-118844)
 * here are the first two out of oh i would guess 20 or 30 :
 * 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‘-
   admin_categories ( cat_ID int(4) NOT NULL auto_increment, ]
    CREATE TABLE wp_wp-
   admin_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) )
 * 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‘-
   admin_comments ( comment_ID int(11) unsigned NOT NULL auto_i]
    CREATE TABLE wp_wp-
   admin_comments ( comment_ID int(11) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, comment_post_ID
   int(11) NOT NULL default ‘0’, comment_author tinytext NOT NULL, comment_author_email
   varchar(100) NOT NULL default ”, comment_author_url varchar(200) NOT NULL default”,
   comment_author_IP varchar(100) NOT NULL default ”, comment_date datetime NOT 
   NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’, comment_date_gmt datetime NOT NULL default‘
   0000-00-00 00:00:00’, comment_content text NOT NULL, comment_karma int(11) NOT
   NULL default ‘0’, comment_approved enum(‘0′,’1’) NOT NULL default ‘1’, comment_agent
   varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”, comment_type varchar(20) NOT NULL default ”,
   comment_parent int(11) NOT NULL default ‘0’, user_id int(11) NOT NULL default‘
   0’, PRIMARY KEY (comment_ID), KEY comment_approved (comment_approved), KEY comment_post_ID(
   comment_post_ID)
 * your welcome to try…
    matt-jared.com/wp-admin/wp-admin/install.php
 * All help is appreciated greatly
 *  [Jazzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jazzer/)
 * (@jazzer)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-db-error-while-installing-muwp/#post-118890)
 * I’ve just had exactly the same problem. Can anyone help?
 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-db-error-while-installing-muwp/#post-118891)
 * You’ll have to contact the developer directly as WP MU is not supported here.

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 * Last reply from: [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-db-error-while-installing-muwp/#post-118891)
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