Installing multisite yields "Error establishing database connection" error

Server end.

Your SQL ID doesn’t have permissions to CREATE tables on your database. Go make sure it has full permissions (ask your host if you don’t know what that means).

I looked at the user in cpanel; it had all privileges EXCEPT execute checked. I checked it, update the user, but when I check the user again it’s unchecked. Maybe that had something to do with the error…
Anyway, I exported my blog, dropped all the tables, reinstalled wordpress, inported the blog xml file, and repeated the multisite install. Now it works.

Interesting, I have come across exactly the same problem with one host …

Both the “Error establishing database connection” and not having the privilege to execute.

Did you ever work out what the problem was?

That sounds very much like a Database creation issue. That is the DB was built in such a way as permissions were restricted.

I noted with our hosts that they do not give permission to the database users to ‘Execute’.

‘Create’ is fine.

I have no idea why, techs are pretty hopeless.

BUT … I made a new database and it is functional, I can create new sub-domain blogs, so that removes problems with the actually server.

Good find. ??

Hi… I have the same problem on DreamHost.

The SQL user options are:

Select, Insert, Update, Delete, Create, Drop, Index, Alter

Is this just not going to work?

Is there anything called “All”? Did you chekc them all and try it? Did you talk to your host?

They are all checked. I asked the host and they said execute is not possible, but that others have set up WP Multisite ‘within the last couple months’.

Specifically, I got WordPress working from a fresh install, followed the instructions to a ‘T’ and got this error.

If I comment out everything below define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
things work

define('WP_DEBUG', false);

define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', true );
$base = '/';
define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'bigcityfocus.com' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/' );
define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

Also, the host confirmed that the wildcards are set up.

Maybe I’ll remove it and do the 1-click install, then do the WP MS setup. Then the db will be made by the server, instead of by my user.

Try it and report back. ??

Hello… Has there been any update on this?

I did what I described in the my last post, above, and it worked. I don’t remember any special details, I just deleted everything, then used the system’s 1-click install (this was on DreamHost) and it all worked when I went back through the setup sequence.

I have followed this procedure exactly, as well.

I get “Error establishing a database connection” after the final step of activating the options in wp-config.php

Repair Database shows:

wp_1_posts: Table ‘gmtwp.wp_1_posts’ doesn’t exist
wp_1_comments: Table ‘gmtwp.wp_1_comments’ doesn’t exist
wp_1_links: Table ‘gmtwp.wp_1_links’ doesn’t exist
wp_1_options: Table ‘gmtwp.wp_1_options’ doesn’t exist
wp_1_postmeta: Table ‘gmtwp.wp_1_postmeta’ doesn’t exist
wp_1_terms: Table ‘gmtwp.wp_1_terms’ doesn’t exist
wp_1_term_taxonomy: Table ‘gmtwp.wp_1_term_taxonomy’ doesn’t exist
wp_1_term_relationships: Table ‘gmtwp.wp_1_term_relationships’ doesn’t exist
wp_1_commentmeta: Table ‘gmtwp.wp_1_commentmeta’ doesn’t exist

My database user has, as far as I can tell, the proper database permissions:

| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO ‘wpuser’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD ‘…’ WITH GRANT OPTION |
and
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO ‘wpuser’@’%’ WITH GRANT OPTION

The things that bug me are:
– Obviously, WordPress already created some tables using that id
– There is absolutely no debugging information, even with any combination of the following:

define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);
define(‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true);
define(‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, false);
define(‘SAVEQUERIES’, true);

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!!
Please help save my hair!