I’m not sure that I understand your question, but the username for the blog database has nothing to do with the name of the blog.
Just set up your blog, and put the username, password, etc. for your database that your web host gave you in the config.php, and you should be good to go. And then you can name the blog (from within your WordPress control panel) anything you like.
Hi Diane, thanks for your note. Sorry if I wasn’t very clear earlier. This is the note that shows up on the install page:
“We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the theblog database.”
‘Theblog’is the name of my blog. On the config.php page, I’ve entered the assigned info from the web host (including ‘userdb_12345_1’ as the database name), but it seems to be looking for the blog name ..? Your note makes sense to me, but when I read the error message, I don’t know what needs to be changed.
Okay. If you look at config.php, you’ll see that it asks for:
database name
database username
database password
database host
The above message indicates that the username, password and *perhaps* the host are correct, but that you don’t have the correct database name. Bear in mind, again, that this has nothing to do with what you are going to call your blog once you get it installed; that has nothing to do with this part of the setup. And you cannot assign a database name from the config.php file — so putting something like “Diane’s Fantastic Blog” or even “theblog” is not going to work.
You name your blog after you install WordPress, and it has no effect on the database name (and vice versa).
What is needed here is the database name assigned by your web host. That’s what you need in your config.php.
Among other problems, I hadn’t uploaded my updated,”correct” script to the right folder. (Shouldn’t try this sort of thing late at night)
Diane, thanks so much for your time and help.
