Title: still cant select database
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# still cant select database

 *  Resolved [jimwulff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimwulff/)
 * (@jimwulff)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-cant-select-database/)
 * Hey all:
 * I’ve been getting the “cant select database” error. I’ve read some of the threads
   on the topic. So I went in to MySQL database and changed my user name and password
   because the user name was 9 characters long and I thought that might be the problem.
   Now I’m being told “the user name and password are incorrect, or we can’t contact
   the server at ‘localhost’.”
 * Is there another place I have to set the user name/password besides the MySQL
   database?

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-cant-select-database/#post-5286664)
 * Try flushing any caching plugins you might be running, as well as server and/
   or browser caches.
 *  Thread Starter [jimwulff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimwulff/)
 * (@jimwulff)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-cant-select-database/#post-5286799)
 * After 8 days, I finally succeeded in getting my blog back and running. I had 
   to go into MySQLdatabase and make sure I added user to database. Then I opened
   the wp-config.php file in file manager and changed the DB user to database_user
   name and it worked!
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-cant-select-database/#post-5286804)
 * Glad you got it sorted 🙂

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-cant-select-database/#post-5286804)
 * Status: resolved

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