Error Establishing Database Connection

  • minutekiller

    (@minutekiller)


    14 years, 7 months ago

    My site is http://www.minutekiller.com

    When I try and run the install I see:
    Error Establishing Database Connection,
    This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost

    I copied down all of my info from Godaddy during setup. I know that this info is correct and I’ve tried the install three different times too. Am I missing something here? Do I need to do something using phpmyadmin?

    Thanks in advance!

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)
  • stvwlf

    (@stvwlf)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    hi

    Within wp-confog.php, GoDaddy requires a hostname of something other than the default “localhost”. You will find that info in the database section of your hosting account.

    Thread Starter minutekiller

    (@minutekiller)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    The Host Name is:
    minutekiller.db.4987984.hostedresource.com

    I switched it up in wp-config.php still seeing the same error. I get the feeling it is something really closely related to this. Sooo close!

    stvwlf

    (@stvwlf)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    You might go back into the database admin and doublecheck the database name and database user. Some systems add a prefix to the ones you entered. Also doublecheck your database password because they are often gibberish characters.

    Thread Starter minutekiller

    (@minutekiller)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Crikey, I’m an idiot!

    The problem was that I had setup a free hosting account and apparently wordpress does not work with the GoDaddy linux free hosting accounts. I repeat,

    Godaddy and WordPress Install will not work with the free hosting accounts over at Godaddy. Even if you are using the linux server. I had the wp-config correct. The only reason I knew this was because I called tech support. Hopefully the next chap will be able to find this WordPress-Go daddy-install thread before having to spend 20 minutes on hold like me.

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    thanks for coming back and resolving it

    stvwlf

    (@stvwlf)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Hi – Guess I wasn’t thinking today, because I know that GoDaddy free hosting doesn’t work with WordPress. Often I ask people having GoDaddy issues if they are on free hosting, but I didn’t think of that earlier.

    Glad to know you got it working.

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)
  • The topic ‘Error Establishing Database Connection’ is closed to new replies.

Tags