jessmina

Thanks for that. ??

It did see me sorted quickly! I can now login into WordPress, whee hee!

I just contacted my host for support, and apparently (hidden away in the depths of the control panel) was an automated WordPress installation plugin. Which means that it’s all working now. Thanks so much for your patience and your help. I bet I’ll be back again sometime with more questions, but until then, thank you. ??

lol, sorry. I was mixing up the example names. It is actually jessmina that I’ve used both in CONFIG and the database name, that I can assure you. ?? I’m thinking that perhaps I need to do something further to set up the database. Am I right?

I’m having exactly the same problem, and made a recent post about it. However, I don’t understand the instructions given in the last post (I’m not very technically-minded). So if anybody can break these steps down further for a MySQL/server newbie, that’d be fantastic.

Now it can’t find the database, but it accepts that the username is OK. It mentions the prefix thing as a possible solution, as well as to check whether the database actually exists. I checked this in MySQL. It exists on my server as jessmina_wordpress, but do I need to do anything else to “set the database up” before it can be found by INSTALL.PHP?

Cana€?t select database

We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the innerfai_wordpress database.

* Are you sure it exists?
* On some systems the name of your database is prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_wordpress. Could that be the problem?

If you don’t know how to setup a database you should contact your host. If all else fails you may find help at the WordPress Support Forums.

Oh my gosh, you are a genius! lol, it’s so frustrating when it’s the little things like that. It’s actually (more or less) working now.

At least this time, there are no big chunks of code. WordPress just has an issue with the database name now, but I guess I’ll fiddle around and try inputting the names without prefixes, and see how it goes.

Thank you so much!

lol, I just posted a new thread before I read your last post…silly me. I’ll know better in future! You’ll probably see it.

I honestly thought there’d be nobody else online when I was, and that I’d have to wait days for a reply…thanks for your help.

Sorry. I wrote the reply, but didn’t know if anybody would see it.

If my server generates a prefix for my database name/username, e.g it converts database BLOG to DOMAIN_BLOG, then do I enter the prefixed version in WP-CONFIG, or just the regular version?