Pekae

Done – Thanks Randy.

P.

Thanks to everyone for suggestions.

Randy – Thanks for going the extra mile! Your latter post re uninstalling and clearing it all out worked – the only thing I did differently was instead of changing the wp-config manually, I went through the entire WordPress install, as you described and, hey presto – all good!

Thanks again.

Paul

Hi – MAMP is starting mySQL and Apache – I can get to it to create a database, no problem, it’s just that final step ??

Hi –

Doesn’t work – that’s the final step in the chain that always gives me that “Error establishing a database connection ” message, no matter what I do.

Hi Caleb,
Thanks for the pointers, but I tried all that already (numerous times). As I say, I’ve done clean installs and followed various youtube videos as well as several (different) “beginners guides” – always with the same result.

I have double & treble-checked all of the parameters, but to no avail.

In addition, by the way, when I check to ensure that the database is set up correctly, there are no tables in it – but I assume that thats what the install routine builds? (Which, of course, I can’t get to run!!)