Title: Installation problem / Database set up
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Installation problem / Database set up

 *  [ansmeer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ansmeer/)
 * (@ansmeer)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problem-database-set-up/)
 * When I go to [http://oceansaway.org/wp/wp-admin/install.php](http://oceansaway.org/wp/wp-admin/install.php),
   I cannot install WordPress but it says that the database set up could be wrong.
 * I don’t know why!
 * This is what I put
 *     ```
       define('oceansaw_wordpress', 'wordpress');    // The name of the database
       define('oceansaw_lina', 'username');     // Your MySQL username
       define('CENSORED', 'password'); // ...and password
       define('localhost', 'localhost');    // 99% chance you won't need to change this value
       ```
   
 * in the wp-config.php file.
 * Any help?

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 *  [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/)
 * (@doodlebee)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problem-database-set-up/#post-543154)
 * You’re supposed to replace the “wordpress”, “username”. etc. NOT the “DB_USER”,“
   DB_PASS” etc.
 * Open up wp-config-smaple.php and change the other values (the SECOND one, in 
   lowercase letters). The DB_ stuff is what builds your tables.
 * Save it as wp-config.php
 *  Thread Starter [ansmeer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ansmeer/)
 * (@ansmeer)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problem-database-set-up/#post-543177)
 * Aaaaha haha, okay thank you so much!
    And yes, I do feel pretty damn stupid now.
   😀
 * It still doesn’t work, though! 🙁
    And I am sure that the database server is 
   up and running because other programs using databases on the same server work
   perfectly fine.
 * What else could be wrong with it?
 *  [demoment](https://wordpress.org/support/users/demoment/)
 * (@demoment)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problem-database-set-up/#post-543360)
 * one question. I forgot to open and save as for the wp-sample.config file. Instead
   i renamed it straightaway and after the modification, i save it. would that be
   a problem
    for the failure of my inition of installation ? tx.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problem-database-set-up/#post-543361)
 * That shouldn’t matter.
 * Please review [Installing_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress).

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