Title: Problems creating a database
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problems creating a database

 *  [bauble](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bauble/)
 * (@bauble)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-creating-a-database/)
 * I have never worked with MySQL before but
    i got onto my cPanel made a user, 
   made a database with “All” priveliges checked, made the user able to use the 
   database
 * easy!
 * except i go to install.php and get this:
 * <i>We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username 
   and password is okay) but not able to select the volupt2_blog 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?</i>
 * i’ve checked the database, it’s there, i’ve tried this as just “blog” for the
   name of the database…. but the server does say the name of the database is volupt2_blog
 * i’m stumped…

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 *  [Cyndy Otty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceo/)
 * (@ceo)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-creating-a-database/#post-173251)
 * Did you edit the wp-config-sample.php with the information and rename it to wp-
   config.php ?
 *  Thread Starter [bauble](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bauble/)
 * (@bauble)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-creating-a-database/#post-173252)
 * yeah, as the post shows, it’s got my own database name, username and password
   in the wp-config.php and has no problems with reading any of those.
 * it just can’t find the database i’ve names “volupt2_blog”, which does exist has
   been created and MySQL says is fine… but as i say, i know nothing about creating
   a database, perhaps i’m missing something on the MySQL panel…?
 *  Thread Starter [bauble](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bauble/)
 * (@bauble)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-creating-a-database/#post-173253)
 * uh nevermind, MySQL wasn’t joining the user to the database, i did it again for
   safety and whaddaya know now it works… *headsmack* sorry
 *  [Nicholas Fitzgerald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nfzgrld/)
 * (@nfzgrld)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-creating-a-database/#post-173448)
 * I’m having the same problem but recreating the user instance isn’t helping. I
   even tried to create a new database and that didn’t help either. I can access
   the database otherwise, via phpMyAdmin, etc, but WP won’t see it.
 *  [Nicholas Fitzgerald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nfzgrld/)
 * (@nfzgrld)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-creating-a-database/#post-173487)
 * Ok I just went to wordpress.com and got a similar error. What’s going on?

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Nicholas Fitzgerald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nfzgrld/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-creating-a-database/#post-173487)
 * Status: not resolved

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