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Sharvin,

Well the problem is the tables don’t exist. The install, I am assuming should create them at some point. But isn’t doing so. The database is there and can connect to it.. just no tables are being created by WP on install or something. I feel a step is missing.

Sharvin,

I probably should also address that the Option 1 script I had to modify to use mysqli instead, this is due to newer versions of PHP don’t have or use the old mysql plugin anymore. WordPress recommends the version of PHP I am using and supports mysqli from what I could find in the source wp-db.php

Sharvin,

So, I have checked the wp-config file as you have stated multiple times. Login, passwords, db and host are all correct.

As for the other steps I have done Option 1 (as stated in my original post) and it works and connects. I have tried Option 2 (Multiple times recreated users – reinstalled everything thinking something may have corrupted) and it doesn’t work. As a reminder I am on windows and do not use linux, so cPanel isn’t an option. I do use MySQL’s Workbench. I have recreated the database, created a separate user with full right permissions (Even used root), used localhost and the ip address. still nothing. And as for Option 3 we don’t use a hosting company this is on my own server.

Hence my frustration. Shouldn’t be so difficult.

Sharvin, Unfortunately that didn’t work. That maybe because this is a fresh install and the tables don’t exist yet. The suggestion you gave now gives me the following error when I goto the repair.php page…

WordPress database error Table ‘wp_database.wp_options’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘siteurl’ LIMIT 1 made by require_once…. (VERY LONG)