I installed on a Mac, and I had this common “database connection” problem, and it turned out to be caused by my version of MySQL being too new. I downgrading it to 4.0.23-standard and that fixed everything.
Here’s my site: Sprocket 🙂
Alex
I agree, make sure you use the recommended version of MySQL, not the latest one. I installed on a Mac, and it took me a long time to figure out that my MySQL was too recent a version, and downgrading it fixed everything.
Here’s my site: Sprocket 🙂
Alex
Thanks for all the helpful comments. I have only an admin account (and lost the password). I tried updating wp_users directly with an MD5-encoded password, and I tried decoding the emailed password, and in both cases I login without seeing an error message (i.e. no “Error: Incorrect Password.”) but I still get redirected right back to my login page. Any ideas?
