42Fears

I use Ubuntu server 14.04, I’m managing the server using SSH on my windows laptop.

I’m not sure about the meaning of your second question.

To get wordpress I used

wget https://www.ads-software.com/latest.tar.gz

extracted it etc…

So I think my answer to your second question is no.

I didn’t have security keys until now. I’ve added those, however I still get the same error. My database configuration seems to be fine, I’ve followed the exact steps you describe here.

Can a wrong security key cause this type of errors ? I’ve typed them manually so I can’t garantee that they are 100% the same as those of the page you gave me a link to.

Is there a way to give an overview of my current setup so I can show it to you and maybe find what’s wrong ?

I’ve been through the pages you added in your edit while trying to fix my problem, found nothing I might have done incorrectly.

PS : This problem isn’t vital for me, I’m trying to set this up only for private fun, thank you very much for helping me, don’t feel like this is too important.

I feel like I’m giving you guys too few elements on how to help me. So here’s my wp-config.php :

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', '[removed]');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', '[removed]');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');

/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

I’ve tried it twice, by creating and deleting new databases. Maybe one of you could give me the whole process of correctly making a database for wordpress, if that’s where I made a mistake.

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

So I guess yes, it was successful

Well, my password is obviously different. I didn’t use “root” as database user and I was ready to thank you for fixing my problem and pointing out how stupid my mistake was, but after modifying my file it still doesn’t work…

No clue