alexanne86
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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Error establishing a database connectionThanks Lyle.
I uninstalled / moved all files to trash & started over.
This time, the Open Start Page worked (yay!) as it should. From here I proceeded with the WP install. I proceeded exactly as directed by this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP4E3KT12Zg and yet it did not work once again.
I moved all the wordpress folder contents into the htdocs file. I removed “sample” from the wp-config file. I changed the user name, password to that provided in the MAMP welcome page & updated the database name based on the new & empty one I created in phpMyAdmin.
I just now went in to double check that all info in the wp-config file was correct and it was however I found my mistake!!!! In case this can help anyone else and as dumb as it may be my solution was:
The issue was with the backtics (single quotation). I just made sure they were all uniform. It was not because there was a space anywhere – I had checked that but rather I copied and pasted the backtick from below and didn’t type it in. For whatever reason it worked!
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Error establishing a database connectionDumb question – site url? I originally kept the same database name and created a second database with a new name to see if that would work. It did not.
Basically I went through the steps. I downloaded MAMP. I downloaded WordPress. I transfered WordPress into the MAMP file & copied all the files over into htdocs. Before making the changes to the wp-config file I wanted to check MAMP’s connection as I had issues the last time. When I clicked “Open start page’ it opened with an error and url http://localhost:8888/. When I changed the url to http://localhost:8888/MAMP/ it opened the page Welcome! MAMP has been successfully installed.
I then continued the steps but when got to the end step where I enter the url http://localhost:8888/wp-admin/install.php it came up with an error message.
I accessed the phpMyAdmin on the host but I do not know how to check the wp_options table. I went through all the tabs under my database I created.
Thank you again for your help!
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Error establishing a database connectionThanks for the quick response – much appreciated!
I’ve gone through your troubleshooting list & all as far as I can tell are in order. I’ve laboured through the many forums about this error and clearly a lot of people have dealt with the same issue.
I guess my main confusion is why it had the error before I even made the file changes to wp-config.php. The first time I tried to connect, it would not with just http://localhost:8888/ but would with http://localhost:8888/MAMP/.
I know there is something off but I keep going through all the advice and nothing seems to work. Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated!