database not working?

  • In case it helps I’m trying to install WP 1.2-RC1 and I’m hosting with Dathorn. My issue is that I follow the installation instructions and it is not working. I’ve set up a wordpress database and a user for it. But when I go to the install script it says “We’re having a little trouble selecting the proper database for WordPress.” “Are you sure it exists?” blah blah… everything in the config file mirrors what I set up, and even on the second question, it acknowledges what I put in the config file (and it looks identical to the database info from phpmyadmin). So at this point I just feel dumb. It all matches, but doesn’t seem to work. So my 5 minute install is at about 20mins already = ) Thanks! -Josh

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  • Verify the MySQL host in your wp-config.php file is correct. The default is localhost and that is fine 99.9% of the time (according to WP), but with some servers, such as my web host, I had to use MySQLHost instead of localhost.

    scislac, don’t worry. I’ve done that many times too

    @scislac: Could you tell me how do you create the user, then give him access to the database ?

    Hi,
    I have exactly the same problem. (“we’re having a litte…”). So I too would like to know how to give the user access to the database!
    Thanks,
    Matthijs

    It depends on whether you’re using cPanel or Plesk.
    I’ve always used Plesk, and have just moved to a new host using cPanel – so I managed to get my database imported and everything in there using phpmyadmin, only to have this same problem. The database was there, and the user was there; trouble was, they weren’t associated with eachother!
    Turns out in cPanel you have to explicitly add a user to the database… in Plesk you had to be inside the database before you could even add a user, so it sort of did this by itself.

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