Can’t select database

  • Hello,

    I am new to WordPress & installing it for 1st time. While installation process got the following error on step 2:

    We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the wp_bb database.

    ?Are you sure it exists?
    ?Does the user root have permission to use the wp_bb database?
    ?On some systems the name of your database is prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_wp_bb. Could that be the problem?

    root has ALL PRIVILEGES. Still; not able to get through.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Did you already create the database? If not, create it and assign privs to the username you’re specifying in that step.

    ROOT should never be used as the user for a WordPress database.

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