Put that error message in the search box (top right)
i’ve read about a hundred posts trying to find other windows users with the problem of this:
Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.
getting shoved down our throats. i have done some of the things that seem to have helped others, but didn’t work on my system. i’m getting frustrated with it actually. if MT is fine with php & mysql, why would wordpress be bitchy about some ‘missing database’. is this a perms issue? or an IIS issue? cuz, can’t be a database issue because IT HASN’T BEEN CREATED YET.
sorry, but i’m pulling my hair out over this.
leQ – what is your OS / WAMP setup ?
what is WAMP? windows authentication?
I’m on XP Home – no IIS.
WAMP: Windows Apache Mysql Php
I have zero experience with IIS. I don’t know why you want to use IIS as opposed to anything else (unless it’s just because it is there ?) but I have experience – and totally recommend Xampp).
You can download it from here:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
and it is incredibly easy to use – one click install.
You will need to stop IIS though as they compete for ports.
Sound useful ?
i just installed it, and will let ya know how it goes. i hate to feel that wordpress beat me, hence i feel compelled to get it working for some inane reason. i just really like the look of wordpress as opposed to the other engines out there.
i can’t tell you how much i appreciate your pointing me to xampp.
thank you thank you thank you.
you are the man (or woman)
I have just done the famous 5 minute install to my ISP’s system. But of course WordPress announces it cannot find MySQL. It says: “Error establishing a database connection.” I’m not surprised, I know nothing about MySql and there’s apparently nothing in the docs. I am a non-nerd uploading it to my ISP… how and what am I supposed to know about MySQL?
Rgds
Martin
You’ll have to ask your ISP about how to access MySQL on their servers.
My ISP Says:
>>>>>
accessing mySQL database from PHP
To contact a MySQL server, you need the following four items:
The host name;
The database name;
The user name;
The password.
The function to make contact is mysql-connect:
<<<<<
That’s it (ISP is Vevida.nl)
Does that help?
Rgds
Martin
Those are exactly the four items you need to put into your config file. If your host offers a database in your account there should be somewhere information about those 4 things š
If you have them correctly in the wp-config.php file, you don’t really need to know anything about MySQL…
But is the database name e.g. the same as my account/domain?
(That was a quesiton for other users of Vevida…)
mcleaver, you’ll have better luck asking server-specific questions to your hosting provider’s support dept.
