asaintprix

I’ve tried all of these things and still can’t get WP to work. Granted, I’m on an old version of the software and that could be part of the problem – perhaps it’s time to upgrade after all. I’ll try that and report back.

I had the same problem as above, so I tried the old password bit and that didn’t work.

I was migrating my wordpress install from another computer so I knew everything should work properly, but for some reason it refused to work. I upgrade from a 4.1.x version of MySQL to 5.0.67.

I reviewed settings in the wp_config.php file and decided to change the DB_HOST value from ‘localhost’ to ‘127.0.0.1’ and voila! It worked immediately.

I don’t know if it’s bad from to use the ip address, but it seemed to work.
I have no clue why it didn’t work with localhost list as db host. Maybe someone smarter can post why this is the case. Anyway, glad it’s working now. Hopefully this helps someone else.