upgrade problem

  • jesslin

    (@jesslin)


    21 years ago

    I’m trying to upgrade, but I’m having trouble connecting to my existing database. I’ve been doing all that it’s been prompting me to do (I get this page that says: Can’t select database

    We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the jesslin_wrdp2 database.

    * Are you sure it exists?
    * On some systems the name of your database is prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_wordpress. Could that be the problem?) but I’ve tried all that and it still hasn’t changed anything. I’m really not that savvy when it comes to MySQL / PHPAdmin – frankly it all scares me.

    Any help?

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  • Thread Starter jesslin

    (@jesslin)

    21 years ago

    to clarify – i did do “the really important part” or at least it was already done… (http://codex.wordpress.org/cPanel_X#The_Really_Important_Bit)

    Thread Starter jesslin

    (@jesslin)

    21 years ago

    to clarify further….. I was going for a new blog, from an existing database, and I tried the new ‘table_prefix’ but still nothing. (http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=28708)

    Thread Starter jesslin

    (@jesslin)

    21 years ago

    bump

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    21 years ago

    ” I was going for a new blog, from an existing database”
    Not sure what you mean ….

    Thread Starter jesslin

    (@jesslin)

    21 years ago

    well, I guess technically it isn’t a new blog then if it’s using an existing database… just an upgrade

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    21 years ago

    I’m trying to work out what happened to get you stuck.
    All I can think is that you deleted the wp-config.php file ?
    Did you then recreate it ?

    Thread Starter jesslin

    (@jesslin)

    21 years ago

    my wp-config.php file is most definitely there.

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    21 years ago

    You are getting a message that you can connect, but not to database ?

    This can only be caused by you
    – not having done the R.I.B (which you say you have)
    – getting the database name wrong.

    I can’t see how else this is happening …..the database does exist ? The config.php has precisely the correct details ? (You did not say if this was a recreated one or the original).

    Thread Starter jesslin

    (@jesslin)

    21 years ago

    its an edited version. from Step 3 from this page http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Detailed_Instructions
    I followed those directions. I’m pretty sure that it has the right details in it seeing as this is the only MySQL database I’m running. I tried variants of the database name, with and without the username prefix but I kept getting the same message that I posted above.

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