Title: WP Multisite Databse Connection Error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WP Multisite Databse Connection Error

 *  [Daiyoukai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daiyoukai/)
 * (@daiyoukai)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-databse-connection-error/)
 * I’ve enabled multisite (sub-directory installs), followed the directions, modified
   wp-config and .htaccess and all seemed fine.
 * I go to create a ‘new site’ – The process itself completes, but when I attempt
   to view the site it throws an error: Cannot Establish A Connection to the Database
 * I went into the database itself and found that it wasn’t actually creating any
   of the new tables, thing is the mysql user has all the permissions, so I’m not
   quite sure what else to do. I’ve googled this a bunch and looked at various answers,
   but none have seemed to help.
 * I do have a multitude of plug-ins installed, so I tried it with them all disabled
   to no avail.

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 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-databse-connection-error/#post-2301964)
 * Did you create the initial wordpress install using the one-click install option
   from your host?
 *  Thread Starter [Daiyoukai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daiyoukai/)
 * (@daiyoukai)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-databse-connection-error/#post-2302001)
 * I wasn’t actually the one who installed wordpress, I came into this project a
   bit later.
 * But it seems they did use the one-click install option (On Dreamhost)
 * Starting over with a new install is sadly, at this point, not really a viable
   option so I’ve been trying to figure it out this way.
 * I also tried the solutions here: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-site-not-creating-necessary-tables](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-site-not-creating-necessary-tables)–
   everything was utf8, the mysql user had all the privileges necessary, it just
   did not seem to work.
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-databse-connection-error/#post-2302024)
 * Talk to your host. Tell them the db user is not allowing new tables to be created.
 * I’ not sure if making a new db user and adding them to that db & fixing the config
   file would actually make it work, but you could try.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-databse-connection-error/#post-2302024)
 * Status: not resolved

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