• Hello all,

    I have no practical experience with databases or phpMyAdmin, but my provider does support MySQL and it uses phpMyAdmin to manage the databases.

    My problem is this: despite successfully having created the wordpress database on the home page for my domain, I hit a snag when I come to the second item in the instructions here on WordPress.org for installing using phpMyAdmin.

    2.Click the Home icon in the upper left to return to the main page, then click Privileges. If a user relating to WordPress does not already exist in the list of users, create one:
    1. Click Add a new User…… and so on

    I can’t do these things because there is nowhere to click for “Privileges.” When I click on home after clicking in the drop-down for my wordpress database, I see this:
    <img src=”http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae214/BFitzcarraldo/th_phpmyadmin2-1.png&#8221; border=”0″ alt=”Photobucket” >

    When I click the Home icon in the upper left as per the instructions, I return to this screen: <img src=”http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae214/BFitzcarraldo/th_phpmyadmin2.png&#8221; border=”0″ alt=”Photobucket” >

    I am logged in with the database administrator login. I don’t understand how to proceed at all. I haven’t got a clue.

    Could someone please help me, or provide a workaround possibility?

    Thanks very much.

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  • Thread Starter fitzcarraldo

    (@fitzcarraldo)

    If anyone could help me out, I’d appreciate it very much! Thanks in advance.

    Your webhost probably has some privledges restricted, and your user name has probably already been set by the webhost. Ask them and check the email and info you got from them when you opened the account.

    Thread Starter fitzcarraldo

    (@fitzcarraldo)

    Thank you. I’ve shot them an email to ask about privileges.

    Sounds like the wordpress docs assume you have root access, where you could alter mysql privileges through phpmyadmin, and you simply don’t have those privileges, so phpmyadmin does not show them.

    If you used your hosts control panel to create a database then the user/password is usually supplied as part of the setup, and that user should already have access to the new database.

    @dewed: Your point is…repeating what I said?

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