superuserkevin

On a Mac form it was said that changing ‘localhost’ to ‘Localhost’ also works on a Mac. This is what I was installing on and confirm that either ‘Localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ do work.

In wp-config.php I changed To this code:

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1');

FROM this code:

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

Despite the database user being set in mysql to have permission to connect to ‘localhost’ and ‘%’ it wouldn’t go with the ‘localhost’ set in wp-config.php but with the ip address it worked.
Black Magic is my only explanation for this behavior.