Title: Databases
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Databases

 *  [betsushi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/betsushi/)
 * (@betsushi)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/databases/)
 * Hi, I’m a newbie at WordPress and english isn’t my native english, but well, 
   I’m going to try:
 * I have an account of the type “myname.thedomain.com” and it’s hosted in the domain
   of a friend and since I don’t own that domain I don’t have access to the admin
   options, Cpanel, PHPMyAdmin or similars. Are they necessary for creating a database?
   Or have the main admin to create a database for me? Exists another ways to create
   a database in my account, using FTP, for example?
 * Thank you!

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 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/databases/#post-1247869)
 * Hi
 * You can’t create a database by FTP.
 * You do need access to at least Cpanel to create a database. You can have the 
   main admin create the database. Cpanel servers often have Fantastico installed
   which does a complete WordPress installion – database and program code, in less
   than 5 minutes. If someone can install that on your domain you can begin to administer
   your WordPress site.

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