Installation Issue (Database Connectivity)

  • Resolved Jayman Pandya

    (@jaymanpandya)


    16 years, 4 months ago

    Hi All,

    I am new to wordpress installation on a local machine. I am a MAC user and am trying to install wordpress 2.9.1 on my osx 10.6 using xampp.

    when i try and go to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php the page shows me and error saying :

    “
    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?
    * Does the user tuts have permission to use the wordpress database?
    * 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?

    If you don’t know how to setup a database you should contact your host. If all else fails you may find help at the WordPress Support Forums.
    “

    please help…

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  • neodan

    (@neodan)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    Why are you using XAMPP? You need to have XAMPP running to ensure your site will be online. And since your using a laptop for a webserver, it will
    1) Drain your battery
    2) The speeeds will be very slow for other users and
    3) Most isps don’t allow it

    Make sure you turned on MYSQL/Apache and also make sure you added the user to the database…

    —
    I strongly suggest you find a webhost, there are tons of free ones out there

    Thread Starter Jayman Pandya

    (@jaymanpandya)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    Thank you very much Neodan… You solved my problem… my user tuts was not added in the database… I am trying to install this only to learn to create themes for WP. once i am happy and done with my theme i will upload it to my server…

    And yes again thank you very much for the help… 😀

    neodan

    (@neodan)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    Glad everything worked out. =)

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