Error – database connection – Host Name

In cPanel on the DB admin interface when you add the user to the database it will give you 2 connection strings: one for Peral, one for PHP. Look at the second one – everything should be there.

Did you read the guide from the link above that macmanx gave you?
Did you look at the images there? Go back again and take a look at the section titled “Connection Information”…
If you don’t see that on your database management cPanel page – it means you didn’t add the user to the DB.

Rikku,
Don’t get lost in details. Your cPanel might have a different skin/theme, the colours might be different etc. but that information is the same.
Find a link (button) named “MySQL Databases” and clicking on it will take you to the next page where the connection string are displayed.
Again: if you did NOT add the user to the database, you won’t see it. Question: Did you add the user to the database???

Quote 1: I did add a user to the database
Quote 2: you will need a properly configured dba user to log in (just add user with dba role if you don’t have one)

Don’t you sense any contradiction here…?
The user is NOT added to the DB.

Create a user (angela_wordpress) and to ADD to the database are 2 different operations. Well, that’s an overstatement… the second one is a click when you see the DB and the user in the proper fields, you click below on the add user button. Note: the fact that you see them in the same line does NOT mean the user was added.

I didn’t say grant. I sad “ADD user to db”.