Title: Local Install Error
Last modified: October 28, 2021

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# Local Install Error

 *  Resolved [the_bork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the_bork/)
 * (@the_bork)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-install-error/)
 * I installed (on a Mac) PHP, MsySQL, and phpMyAdmin. I created accounts and a 
   database, verified usernames, passwords, version numbers, state etc (from Terminal).
   I downloaded WP to Web Server root. The install prompt appears. I enter the (
   verified) requested details…
    and a connection error is returned; “Error establishing
   a database connection”
 * There might be a simple explanation for this but I can’t think of one.

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 *  Thread Starter [the_bork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the_bork/)
 * (@the_bork)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-install-error/#post-15016618)
 * Fixed. WP only allowed ‘root’ for install. (Why?) I’ll leave it here in the event
   that it might save someone time. Or in the event that someone has an explanation
   why an installation can’t proceed with a verified user (with full db privileges).
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-install-error/#post-15016680)
 * If you added no other users to your MySQL server, then “root” is the only one
   available to you. The correct process is to create a database and user for each
   wordpress install in the server… Something like
 *     ```
       mysql -u root -p
          create database wp1;
          grant all on wp1.* to 'newuser'@'localhost' identified by 'newuserpassword';
          exit;
       ```
   
 * Then when you do the WP install and it gets to the database part, you’d use ‘
   wp1’ as the database, ‘newuser’ as the user with password ‘newuserpassword’.
    -  This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).
 *  Thread Starter [the_bork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the_bork/)
 * (@the_bork)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-install-error/#post-15016689)
 * As I said, I created “users”; root and one other. I used phpMyAdmin to create
   the second user, password, and privileges (all). I verified the user and access
   to mySQL from the command line, and phpMyAdmin login.
 * WP wouldn’t complete the install with the second user, only root. ?
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-install-error/#post-15016703)
 * No idea except that you probably did not create the database users with the right
   permission grants or entered the wrong combo in the WP install settings.
 *  Thread Starter [the_bork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the_bork/)
 * (@the_bork)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-install-error/#post-15016714)
 * You would think. But I did this enough times to ensure that I wasn’t entering
   info incorrectly. The only difference in the login details was the username and
   password. And as I said I used those details to log into mySQL from the terminal
   command line, and issued a USE command to access the db.
    I’m moving on. If it
   happens to someone else, the answer is “Use root”.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-install-error/#post-15016716)
 * localhost is always funky.
 *  Thread Starter [the_bork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the_bork/)
 * (@the_bork)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-install-error/#post-15016718)
 * very. 🙂

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 7 replies
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 * Last reply from: [the_bork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the_bork/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-install-error/#post-15016718)
 * Status: resolved

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