Error establishing a database connection

  • Hi
    Here’s my problem. I have direct access (through remote desktop) to a windows 2003 server (I’m the sa). I wanted a blogging program but the non perl/php/mysql options sucked so I did some research and decided to try wordpress. Having only used javascript/vbscript/asp/t-sql etc. (all microsoft, all the time), but having experience building web sites and apps I figured this would be a fun learning experience. It took me awhile to install PHP 4.3.3 and MySQL 3.23.49. I have wordpress set-up as a virtual directory as /wp/ in the root of my site. when I run /wp/wp-admin/install.php I get the error establishing db connection error. My wp-config file looks like this
    <?php
    /** WordPress's config file **/
    /** https://www.ads-software.com/ **/
    // ** MySQL settings ** //
    define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); // The name of the database
    define('DB_USER', 'blog_user'); // Your MySQL username
    define('DB_PASSWORD', 'blog_password'); // ...and password
    define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value
    // Change the prefix if you want to have multiple blogs in a single database.
    $table_prefix = 'wp_'; // example: 'wp_' or 'b2' or 'mylogin_'
    // Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
    // chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.
    // For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to 'de'
    // to enable German language support.
    define ('WPLANG', '');
    /* Stop editing */
    $server = DB_HOST;
    $loginsql = DB_USER;
    $passsql = DB_PASSWORD;
    $base = DB_NAME;
    define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
    // Get everything else
    require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');
    ?>
    I use mysqlcc to administer the database. I have created a database called wordpress and givin the user: blog_user full permissions. Using this interface connected as the ‘blog_user” I can create/delete tables, etc.
    I have skimmed through the wp-install.php code looking for where it throws this error but can’t figure out where it is going wrong. If this was asp and SQL server I am confident I could troubleshoot this…
    I am having a feeling that the problem lies with php accessing MySQL. I don’t understand enough of the syntax to write a script to test the database connection from my web page. This is probaly either a file or network permission problem but I don’t know. I am still new to this server OS and still figuring out its quirks. Any help with this would be appriciated. Thanks

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  • define('DB_PASSWORD', 'blog_password'); // ...and password
    Is that your blog password or your mysql password ? It should be the latter.
    Have you accidentally included a space in any of the details in that file ? I did this a couple of days ago with the db name.

    prefixes are a pain in the ass too on shared sql servers.

    Thread Starter ctfb

    (@ctfb)

    define('DB_PASSWORD', 'blog_password'); is the MySQL password. I don’t have a blog password because I can’t get it to install. I am not on a shared server. Its dedicated and I have complete access. The file fragment above is a copy of my actual wp-config.php.

    i dont think password has a prefix like databases and usernames have on some servers… by sharing i meant many domains running on 1 server thus u get a database name like:
    sitename_databasename
    sitename_username

    Thread Starter ctfb

    (@ctfb)

    I fixed the problem although now I have more. I removed the username and password I had created for the wordpress database and used root with no password. I don’t understand why this would work as I had assigned the ‘blog_user’ all permissions that I could with the mysqlcc admin tool. Anyways, now it crashes on step 3. I am going to reinstall mysql and try again.

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