Title: Making A Database
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Making A Database

 *  [mloesjeenzo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mloesjeenzo/)
 * (@mloesjeenzo)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-a-database/)
 * Here’s another dummy, I’m a newbie in this stuff.
 * Installing WordPress is going wel so far, but that database stuff, is difficult
   to me.
    I created a db on my server, but WordPress can’t find it. And I don’t
   have any idea what a db exactly is, or what I can do with it… So I hope someone
   can help me!

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-a-database/#post-358944)
 * Hopefully, this link will be helpful: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Step_2:_Create_the_Database_and_a_User](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Step_2:_Create_the_Database_and_a_User)
 * And much more at [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress)
 *  [bestfoot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bestfoot/)
 * (@bestfoot)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-a-database/#post-358947)
 * Yes read that link. It won’t just find the db, you have to tell it where it is
   in the config file. In addition as it points out in cpanel (assuming you are 
   lucky enough to have it, you first create the db, and then you need to associate
   a user with that db. So create the user and click on the associate button.
 * Good luck, but you can do it.

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