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1. bmedlin
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I've tried everything multiple times. GoDaddy says it's not them but here is the error when I try to pull up wp-admin/install.php

   Error establishing a database connection
   This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can't contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host's database server is down.

   Here is what I placed in the wp-config.php file and uploaded it along with all the other files (I have a fully functioning site I setup this same way but can not seem to figure out what is wrong with the second one:
   define('DB_NAME', 'anarchistsguide');
   define('DB_USER', 'anarchistsguide@72.167.233.37');
   My password is correct because I am logged into the SQL database:
   anarchistsguide.db.4082093.hostedresource.com
   Server version: 5.0.67.d7-ourdelta-log
   Server: anarchistsguide.db.4082093.hostedresource.com (72.167.233.96 via TCP/IP)
   User: anarchistsguide@72.167.233.37

   What could I be missing?

   Thanks in advance for your help.
   Barbara

2. figaro
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   That db user doesn't look right...the user is probably the same as the db name if I remember correctly from the last time I worked on a Godaddy site.
   This: anarchistsguide.db.4082093.hostedresource.com looks like your db connect information.

   This may help as well.

   http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=148

3. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   SQL database

   I hope that bit is wrong. :>)

   If you are on a windows server you will need to switch to linux. If you are on a linux - absolutely none of the database stuff looks like godaddy's mysql norms and I've done literally 100's of installs there.

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