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1. larr
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   Posted 4 years ago #

   I'm experiencing the infamous db connect error during installation.
   I am self hosting.
   My config file reads as follows (less the comment lines):

   define ('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');       // The name of the database
   define ('DB_USER', 'wpuser');          // Your MySQL username
   define ('DB_PASSWORD', '*******');     // ...and password
   define ('DB_HOST', 'localhost');       // 99% chance you won't need to change this value
   define ('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
   define ('DB_COLLATE', '');
   
   $table_prefix  = 'wp_';   // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
   define ('WPLANG', '');

   I know my db is up as I can connect to the DB via the command line using the user and password stored in the config file.

   SO... I took to editing the wp-db.php file to find out WHAT the db error was. Here's what it's returning. Here are the results:

   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 using:

   wpuser/*******@localhost.

   This could mean your host's database server is down.

   The db connection call returned:

   Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

   I know this reads like plain english, but why would the 'client' not be able to connect to the database 'serve' when they are both on the same host???

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