Title: Error “Can’t select database”
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Error “Can’t select database”

 *  [studiotran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/studiotran/)
 * (@studiotran)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-cant-select-database-2/)
 * I am getting this error:
 * > Can’t select database
   > We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and
   > password is okay) but not able to select the wordpress database.
   >  * Are you sure it exists?
   >  * On some systems the name of your database is 
   > prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_wordpress. Could 
   > that be the problem?
 * I host with godaddy. I have created the MySQL database. I changed the settings
   in the wp-config.php file, I changed the part that says localhost to what it 
   needs to be also.
 * Any ideas?

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-cant-select-database-2/)
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