Title: install.php problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# install.php problem

 *  [unixlove](https://wordpress.org/support/users/unixlove/)
 * (@unixlove)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-problem/)
 * Oh I am sorry
    I am a new user of WordPress and there is something wrong with
   my WordPress or some other software when I run install.php it shows this * Are
   you sure you have the correct user/password? * Are you sure that you have typed
   the correct hostname? * Are you sure that the database server is running? I know
   that I have typed the correct hostname and my database server is running as follows:
   Enviroment: localhostname: UNIXLOVE local User Name: Administrator OS Platform:
   Whistler Local IP Address:10.3.146.65 Total Physical Memory 391664KB RAM MyODBC:
   Not Found Driver 3.51 Not Found Server Server info :5.0.0-alpha-nt Client info:
   5.0.0-alpha Uptime 40 min 32 sec Slow queries :0 Host info :localhost via TCP/
   IP Protocol Info: 10 Threads running 1 Opened tables 6 Open tables 0 Open files
   0 Open streams 0 Questions 484 I don’t know what’s wrong with me,is it MyODBC??

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 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-problem/#post-114668)
 * wordpress is designed for mySQL, so that might be it
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-problem/#post-114691)
 * A MyODBC driver should be unnecessary, since WP connects to MySQL directly. Also,
   try using ‘localhost’ for DB_HOST.
    Of course, it all comes down to what omanno
   remarked on.
 *  [Mark McKibben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manzabar/)
 * (@manzabar)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-problem/#post-114704)
 * Also, it looks like you’re running a Windows server. Windows by default uses 
   IIS and not Apache. I pretty sure some people on these forums have reported getting
   WP to work with IIS but Linux/Apache is the recommended server environment for
   it.
 *  [Palindrome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/palindrome/)
 * (@palindrome)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-problem/#post-115015)
 * WordPress works fine on IIS, but many plugins that use additional resources do
   not.

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 4 replies
 * 5 participants
 * Last reply from: [Palindrome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/palindrome/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-problem/#post-115015)
 * Status: not resolved

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