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    I decided to create a new WordPress site. I thought it would be a breeze as it’s my third one. I set up a database and wp-config and got the “Error establishing a database connection” message. When I looked into it, I found that MySQL, either from the command line or through Sequel Pro, didn’t show my working WordPress database. It did show the one I created for the new site. I could even stop the MySQL server and WordPress would still access my posts, setting, etc on the working database. If I remember correctly, I created the working database when I was using the XAMPP package which contains a version of mysql. Subsequently, I installed a standalone version of MySQL. I no long start XAMPP so I would think there isn’t a second database engine running. If there were, you would think it wouldn’t let me start a second one. Is there some way to find out where WordPress is looking for the database engine? This is on OS X Mountain Lion

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    Update: this is more of standard connection issue. The database that turned out to be working so well was on my production image. I didn’t pay close attention to the url. The development version gets the same error. I suspect I deleted it along with the XAMPP application. I can access a non-wordpress database using php with this code:

    $server = ‘mysql:dbname=amcolan;host=localhost:3306’;
    $this->id = ‘root’;
    $this->password = ‘somepassword’;
    parent::__construct($server,$this->id, $this->password);

    This wp-config.php setup doesn’t work:

    /** MySQL database username */
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’);

    /** MySQL database password */
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘somepassword’);

    /** MySQL hostname */
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost:3306’);

    Thread Starter cortes

    (@cortes)

    This isn’t really a WordPress issue so I’m going to close this.

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