Title: Missing MySQL
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Missing MySQL

 *  [philmbuff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philmbuff/)
 * (@philmbuff)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-mysql-1-2/)
 * When I try to install I get this message:
    “Your PHP installation appears to 
   be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.”
 * However, I have a MySQL set up and I’ve entered the correct username and password.
   I have been at this the last few days.

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 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-mysql-1-2/#post-552631)
 * Are you certain about that. Some web hosts prefix every user and database with
   your own user name.
 * For example, if my web site is [http://www.foobar.com](http://www.foobar.com)
 * and my user id is foo,
 * and I create a database called wp2 and a user called foo2,
 * then my web host prefixes my user name, like this:
 * MySQL Database: foo_wp2
    User: foo_foo2
 * Does this help?

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## Tags

 * [installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation/)
 * [MySQL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mysql/)
 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-mysql-1-2/#post-552631)
 * Status: not resolved

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