Title: WordPress will not install locally
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# WordPress will not install locally

 *  Resolved [wookietim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wookietim/)
 * (@wookietim)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-will-not-install-locally/)
 * So I am simply trying to install a local copy of WP to my Mac OSX (Yosemite) 
   laptop. I have a database created, I know the DB server is running and every 
   time I try to run the install script I get “Error establishing a database connection”.
 * I went through the three possible problems :
    1. Are you sure you have the correct
   username and password?
 * Check. Double, triple, quadruple and whatever “5” is checked it.
 * Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
 * Yep. “localhost”.
 * Are you sure that the database server is running?
 * I can log in using that user/password from the command line AND from the SQL 
   query browser that connects over localhost. So, yep – it’s running.
 * What am I missing?

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-will-not-install-locally/#post-6202976)
 * Error connecting to your database:
    In nutshell, you’re getting this error because
   WP is unable to establish a database connection. Reason why WP is unable to establish
   a database connection can vary. It could be that your database login credentials
   are wrong or have been changed. It could be that your database server is unresponsive.
   It could be that your database has been corrupted. Majority of the times this
   error happens because of some sort of server error. Also, there could be other
   factors as well. To troubleshooting this problem: – double check your [wp-config.php file settings ](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php)
   for the database name, database username and database password, and the host 
   name (e.g., “localhost” Vs. something else). This is where most errors occur.–
   Then make sure wp-config.php is in right location. – Then check that you don’t
   need to change the database host from “localhost” to something else. You can 
   get that info from your hosting provider. – Check you have actually created a
   database with the same database name as is in your wp-config.php file. – Last,
   but not least, if all that information is correct your database probably has 
   a problem with it. Contact your hosting provider if the database server is offline(
   if the problem suddenly happened), or if they have any other problem at their
   end, or they made any changes to your account, or if there are any limitations/
   restrictions, or if the hosting package is set to Windows and not Linux, etc.–
   If the error is intermittent then it’s your server. What’s happening is that 
   the web server and/or the database server are gettign overloaded and the connection
   is droping out or is refused for a short time. That gives you the database error
   as the website can’t connect to the database. To fix this, you’ll need to talk
   to your hosting company as they are the only ones that can do anything about 
   hardware issues like this. – There are also many threads on this topic on these
   forums: [http://wordpress.org/search/Error+establishing+a+database+connection?forums=1](http://wordpress.org/search/Error+establishing+a+database+connection?forums=1)
 *  Thread Starter [wookietim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wookietim/)
 * (@wookietim)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-will-not-install-locally/#post-6202984)
 * I thought of all of that.
 * 1. I can connect to it using this username/password from the SQL Query browser
   going to localhost. The server is up and running and waiting for connections 
   to come to it from the correct direction.
 * 2. I checked the database name : “wordpress” (All lower case) is both the name
   of the database and the name entered into wp-config
 * 3. The database is not corrupt. I can do anything I normally would with it after
   logging on through either query browser or the command line.
 * 4. The database is host on my local hard drive. It is very definitely up and 
   running.
 * I checked the other threads. None of them fit the problem I am seeing… This is
   an example of wp-config simply not connecting to a database that is up, running,
   set up correctly and having the same user that can connect to it any number of
   other ways…
 *  Thread Starter [wookietim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wookietim/)
 * (@wookietim)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-will-not-install-locally/#post-6203004)
 * Figured out the problem. It wasn’t Wp – it was PHP.
 * Upgrading to the latest Yosemite for the Mac apparently caused PHP to become 
   hosed. I re-installed PHP and it could talk to the database suddenly.
 * This is why Macs are an affront to humanity and should be tossed into the fiery
   pits of tartarus.
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-will-not-install-locally/#post-6203007)
 * Glad you got it sorted 🙂

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