I keep getting this error message. I'm using cpanel and I have used the "prefix" and done everything this site suggests. Not sure what I should do now!
Can’t select database (7 posts)
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shanholtzer
Posted 3 years ago # -
meesha
Posted 3 years ago #What error message?
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Posted 3 years ago #the error message is "Can't Select Database"
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Posted 3 years ago #Can’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 ohym_wordpress database.
* Are you sure it exists?
* Does the user ohym_derrick have permission to use the ohym_wordpress database?
* 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? -
Look at this video where I demo installing WP through Cpanel...maybe it will help.
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dup...sorry...connection problems.
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debbrancheau
Posted 2 years ago #I was having this problem as well when I was moving my site to a new domain. Since the domain name was different, the database name was different as well with my hosting company.
However, even though I changed the database name in the wp-config.php file, when I backed up my database from my original site (site1.com), I downloaded the zip file site1_wordpress.sql.
But I forgot when I imported the file through PHPMyAdmin to the new site to change the name of the file to the name of the new database/site (site2.com). So the database file I imported should have been site2_wordpress.sql.
I don't know if that helps anyone, but I thought I'd post it just in case.
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