Title: Error Installing WordPress 2.1
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Error Installing WordPress 2.1

 *  [tfcs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tfcs/)
 * (@tfcs)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-installing-wordpress-21-1/)
 * Hello, This is my first post as today I installed WordPress on my server – however–
   unsuccssfully.
 * I created a new database, FTP’d the folder with changed information in wp-config.
   php file to my server.
 * When running [http://www.thefinalcutstore.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php](http://www.thefinalcutstore.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php)
   from Safari browser I get thsi error message :”Parse error: parse error, unexpected
   T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /hsphere/local/home/digimede/thefinalcutstore.com/
   wordpress/wp-config.php on line 4
 * The contents of this file are as follows:
    <?php // ** MySQL settings ** // define(‘
   DB_NAME’, ‘digimed_blogs’); // The name of the database define(‘DB_USER’,’digimed_john’”);//
   Your MySQL username define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘db_001’); // …and password define(‘
   DB_HOST’, ‘127.0.0.1:3306’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
 * I am guessing that my error callout on Line 4 is define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘127.0.0.1:
   3306’); but not sure why? I tried this with ‘localhost’ defined as well.
 * My hosting is a multi-homed Linux box with uniques IP addresses for each domian.
   The value of 127.0.0.1:3306 is the called value of the address for the SQL server(
   which is external to my server)
 * Question: Do I need a complete path from [http://www.thefinalcutstore.com](http://www.thefinalcutstore.com)
   to the SQL server in wp-config.php or what to make this connect?
 * Thanks

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-installing-wordpress-21-1/#post-561671)
 * why are you including the port #? 3306 is the standard mysql port number, wordpress
   knows this.
 * that said, your error is here:
 * `define('DB_USER','digimed_john' '');`
 * compare it to whats inside the sample wp-config.php
 * `define('DB_USER', 'username'); // Your MySQL username`

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 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-installing-wordpress-21-1/#post-561671)
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