Title: Problems with database selection
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problems with database selection

 *  [maxwellfc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxwellfc/)
 * (@maxwellfc)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-database-selection/)
 * Please help!
    I’ve got the following error:
 * “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 criaweb_wordpress database.”
 * Actually this database doesn’t exist, so i tryed to create a new DB according
   this link:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Using_phpMyAdmin](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Using_phpMyAdmin)
 * There are some code lines that must be placed in any text editor, right? So how
   should i save this file? “wordpress.???”
    what’s the file extension?

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 *  [drmike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmike/)
 * (@drmike)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-database-selection/#post-517708)
 * Depends on your host and what they’re using for backend software. I know with
   CPanel, when you create a new database with the name of wordpress, it will change
   it into username_wordpress.
 * Best bet would be to ask yoru jhost for assistance on this one.
 * As far as I know, there’s nothing you need to be putting into a text file. The
   tables are created upon installation of the software.
 * Hope this helps,
    -drmike

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-database-selection/#post-517708)
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