Title: really confused. help, please.
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# really confused. help, please.

 *  [confuzzled](https://wordpress.org/support/users/confuzzled/)
 * (@confuzzled)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-confused-help-please/)
 * Ok. I am super new to all of this so go easy with the techie terms, please. 🙂
   
   I am having a problem installing WP. I’ve read through some of the forum threads
   and corrected (at least I thought so) issues that I had which were addressed 
   in said threads but I’m still having a problem. Here’s the message I get when
   I load install.php “Error establishing a database connection! This probably means
   that the connection information in youn wp-config.php file is incorrect. Double
   check it and try again. 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’ve entered everything correctly. Here’s the config.php
   info: <?php /** WordPress’s config file **/ /** [http://wordpress.org/](http://wordpress.org/)**///**
   MySQL settings ** // define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wakinglions’); // The name of the database
   define(‘DB_USER’, ‘wakinglions’); // Your MySQL username define(‘DB_PASSWORD’,‘
   password removed’); // …and password define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance
   you won’t need to change this value // Change the prefix if you want to have 
   multiple blogs in a single database. $table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // example: ‘wp_’
   or ‘b2’ or ‘mylogin_’ /* Stop editing */ $server = DB_HOST; $loginsql = DB_USER;
   $passsql = DB_PASSWORD; $base = DB_NAME; define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__).’/’);//
   Get everything else require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’); ?> Also, when I 
   use the install-config.php file I get an error message that reads: “Sorry, I 
   can’t write to the directory. You’ll have to either change the permissions on
   your WordPress directory or create your wp-config.php manually.” Any help would
   be greatly appreciated. thanks tee

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-confused-help-please/#post-31943)
 * Have you already defined a MySQL database on the server ?
    Do you have server
   logs you can check ?
 *  [southerngal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/southerngal/)
 * (@southerngal)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-confused-help-please/#post-31946)
 * Did you create a DB? Did you create a user for that database? And most importantly…
   did you add that user to the database?
 *  Thread Starter [confuzzled](https://wordpress.org/support/users/confuzzled/)
 * (@confuzzled)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-confused-help-please/#post-31947)
 * By defined, do you mean created a username and password? That’s all I did. Then
   there’s the option to manage the database which is at [https://mysqladmin.secureserver.net/1/](https://mysqladmin.secureserver.net/1/)
   but I have no idea what to do on that page.
    I don’t know what server logs are.
   Please advise. Thanks so much. I’ve been at this all morning to no avail.
 *  Thread Starter [confuzzled](https://wordpress.org/support/users/confuzzled/)
 * (@confuzzled)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-confused-help-please/#post-31949)
 * southerngal,
    I took a look at your tutorial (which I got from another thread)
   and it was like greek to me. :0/ I use GoDaddy as a host and have their cheapest
   hosting plan which includes 1 MySQL database. I created the database (username
   and passoword) and assumed that was all I needed to do.
 *  [southerngal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/southerngal/)
 * (@southerngal)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-confused-help-please/#post-31951)
 * I’m glad you looked at the tutorial. I think maybe you need to look at your control
   panel for your hosting plan and click on mysql database. If you don’t see anything
   on there, you haven’t added the user to the database. If you don’t add the user,
   you can’t use the database. 🙂 If you see a bunch of writing like this:
    Connection
   Strings Perl $dbh = DBI->connect(“DBI:mysql:your databasename:localhost”,”yourdatabasename”,”
   <PASSWORD HERE>”); PHP $dbh=mysql_connect (“localhost”, “yourdatabasename”, “
   <PASSWORD HERE>”) or die (‘I cannot connect to the database because: ‘ . mysql_error());
   mysql_select_db (“yourdatabasename”); Then you have created the DB and the User
   Name and have added the user to the database and there’s another problem we’re
   looking at. 🙂
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-confused-help-please/#post-31952)
 * That page is secure, so we cannot see it.
    You need to create a database, and
   note the full name (my host puts a prefix of it’s own onto the DB name) Ensure
   that you are the USER permitted to access the DB, and that your password is correct.
   Also check – it may be written somewhere on that secure page – that DB_HOST is‘
   localhost’. It should be, but it’s worth checking. Server logs are where all 
   activity relating to your site is written by the server. If you can find them,
   they can help when tracking down errors as they will list them for you.
 *  Thread Starter [confuzzled](https://wordpress.org/support/users/confuzzled/)
 * (@confuzzled)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-confused-help-please/#post-31955)
 * Thanks for all your help!
    I’ll try and get it together based on your responses.
 *  [antifuse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antifuse/)
 * (@antifuse)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-confused-help-please/#post-31969)
 * I know this really isn’t the place for this, but Bloghosts.com is much cheaper
   than GoDaddy for better service, and their customer support is top notch – They’re
   really great with questions like that. But seeing as you’re not all that tech
   savvy, switching hosting providers would probably be a pain in the butt 🙂

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