Title: First timer, not working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# First timer, not working

 *  [marccreedon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marccreedon/)
 * (@marccreedon)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-timer-not-working/)
 * I would think this might be a common problem, but I can’t find any help elsewhere
   so I’m posting here. I’m trying to go from wordpress.com to wordpress.org, but
   I can’t get past establishing the database. I don’t know a ton about these things,
   but I can usually figure most things out, and I’ve been at this on and off now
   for months. I’m getting very frustrated as you can imagine. I know that all the
   login information I edited into the wp-config.php file is correct, and my host
   service has instructions for installing wordpress using mysql (if that is the
   correct way to say that, I don’t think it is) which I have cross referenced with
   the famed 5 minute install instructions and everything seems to check out. yet
   when I navigate to the web address I’ve established (www.marccreedon.com/blog)
   I get the old ‘Error establishing a database connection’ message. I’ve tried 
   the whole procedure on another domain I own just to see if there was something
   screwy with the database on the first one but I’ve had the same results. I’m 
   sorry if this is wordy, but I’m trying to be specific. Can anyone help me or 
   must I abandon wordpress forever.

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 *  [Brian Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zgani/)
 * (@zgani)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-timer-not-working/#post-1166460)
 * your database server is incorrect in the wp-config.php – it reads mysql.marccreedon.
   com. change it to localhost and you should be good to go.
 *  Thread Starter [marccreedon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marccreedon/)
 * (@marccreedon)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-timer-not-working/#post-1166779)
 * Thanks for replying! I took your advice and changed mysql.marccreedon.com to 
   localhost, but I got the same error message. I assume by change it to localhost
   you mean change it verbatim to ‘localhost’, that is what I did.
 *  [Brian Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zgani/)
 * (@zgani)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-timer-not-working/#post-1166780)
 * Your host must be using a separate server for MySQL so the name might be something
   like yourusername.mysqlserver.com. Check with them if you can not locate it in
   your cpanel

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last reply from: [Brian Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zgani/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-timer-not-working/#post-1166780)
 * Status: not resolved

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