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

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# Problems with the database

 *  [jugularbean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jugularbean/)
 * (@jugularbean)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-the-database-2/)
 * I’ve installed wordpress on my home server.
    I use IIS 5.0 I have PHP 4.4.2 installed
   and working fine I have MySQL Server 5.0 I use SQLYog as a frontend I’ve created
   a wordpress database I’ve updated wp-config to reflect the following
 * define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
    define(‘DB_USER’,‘
   root’); // Your MySQL username define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘mypassword’); // …and password
   define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
 * I deleted the database and recreated it from the MySQL CLI as per the steps in
   the Codex.
 * But I still get the error
    Error establishing a database connection
 * I’ve looked through the other topics in the forums for this error but couldn’t
   find any resolution to mine.

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 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-the-database-2/#post-414852)
 * One standard response is to check with your hosts. They know your setup regarding
   MySQL and PHP, which seems to vary wildly between hosts — in fact they will probably
   be able to help you better than anyone here.
 *  Thread Starter [jugularbean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jugularbean/)
 * (@jugularbean)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-the-database-2/#post-414884)
 * WordPress is not setup on a host. I’ve set it up at home.
 *  [ryoken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryoken/)
 * (@ryoken)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-the-database-2/#post-414889)
 * check your error logs for anything else?

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## Tags

 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [iis](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/iis/)
 * [MySQL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mysql/)

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 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [ryoken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryoken/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-the-database-2/#post-414889)
 * Status: not resolved

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