Title: Install Error – Can not select database
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Install Error – Can not select database

 *  [kokushta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kokushta/)
 * (@kokushta)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-error-can-not-select-database/)
 * > Can’t select database
   > We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and
   > password is okay) but not able to select the unionije_wordpress database.
   >  * Are you sure it exists?
   >  * On some systems the name of your database is 
   > prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_wordpress. Could 
   > that be the problem?
   > If you don’t know how to setup a database you should contact your host. If 
   > all else fails you may find help at the WordPress Support Forums.
 * This is the message when I started the install by going: [domain]/wp-admin/install.
   php
 * The thing is, I created the database with the name wordpress – but the system
   converted into hostusername_wordpress. So was the login-username.
    In the wp-
   config.php i set everything correct.
 * 1- Is there anything I can do or..
 * 2- If i want to istall WP into a different folder, ex. domain/blog/
    Would it
   be ok just to upload all into blog folder?

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