Title: Problems with Step 2
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problems with Step 2

 *  [kalibleek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kalibleek/)
 * (@kalibleek)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-step-2/)
 * I’m a total newbie to this whole thing, and I’ve been getting help sparingly 
   with a friend who’s helping me host my new site, but I’m stuck on step two. I
   get this message:
 * <img src=”[http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7977/untitled25ta.jpg”&gt](http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7977/untitled25ta.jpg”&gt);
 * Any suggestions on what could be causing this? I’ve got the mySQL setup and all
   the files uploaded.

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 *  [zerok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zerok/)
 * (@zerok)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-step-2/#post-369250)
 * Are you sure that your username and password are correct and that the database
   you’ve specified already exists?
 *  Thread Starter [kalibleek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kalibleek/)
 * (@kalibleek)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-step-2/#post-369294)
 * Which database exactly? The mySQL one? The mySQL was setup yesterday. I couldn’t
   get to step 2 before because my user/pass were incorrect, fixed those and got
   to this step, where I am now.
 *  [zerok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zerok/)
 * (@zerok)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-step-2/#post-369306)
 * Well, if you’ve already created the MySQL database in whatever database management
   tool you’re using, then it’s probably just a problem with letting the user you
   want to use for wordpress to be able to access this database. If you’re using
   phpMyAdmin you can for example change the privileges that user has in the “Privileges”
   forum which is linked on the startpage of phpMyAdmin 🙂

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [zerok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zerok/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-step-2/#post-369306)
 * Status: not resolved

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