config.php — 2 questions

  • Resolved elliesword

    (@elliesword)


    15 years, 6 months ago

    Questions:

    IF the name of my database for WordPress is Cow .
    In the config.php, should I enter: (‘DB_NAME’, ‘Cow’); or
    should I enter: (‘DB_NAME’, ‘DB_Cow’); ???

    Same concept applies to all 4 of the questions.

    When saving the config-sample file as config.php, there is a choice as to encoding. Should I use ANSI or UTF-8 ???

    Thanks!

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    Thread Starter elliesword

    (@elliesword)

    That is an excellent resource! I’m very grateful to have it. Yet,
    I’m still getting the “Error Establishing a Database Connection.”

    I changed the ‘DB_HOST’, TO ‘localhost’) and thought that would do it. My server techie (not too bright, I’ve decided) said to use the mysqlservername.com +(the ip address). I can see he is wrong, but ‘localhost’ doesn’t work either.

    Thanks for the link, though! I appreciate it!

    He may not be wrong…what your DB_Host value is depends on your host. See the link below for values for some of the common hosts.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Editing_wp-config.php

    Thread Starter elliesword

    (@elliesword)

    I wrote my server “www.servergrid.com” and received the following message. Does this perhaps have anything to do with my not being able to get this installed?

    “The servers support Mysql 5.0 and PHP 4.4 and 5. Though the Mod_rewrite is not supported as the servers are IIS based not Apache based. Though wordpress is known to work with our services. Please let us know if we can assist you further. Thank you.”

    Thread Starter elliesword

    (@elliesword)

    I checked the link you gave me. Thanks! I tried again, using “localhost” and then “localhost:3306” (alternate port is 3306) and then the link my techie gave me: “mysql10xxxx.com(64.8.isp#” and then “mysql10xxxx.com(64.8.isp#:3306” — and always get the same error message: “Error Establishing a Database Connection.”

    I’m defeated.

    Thread Starter elliesword

    (@elliesword)

    Situation resolved! It was the host name — no ISP needed.
    Many thanks to all for your help!

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