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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: “Error establishing a database connection” – bear with meIt’s uncommented. I’ve restarted the server more than a couple of times.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: “Error establishing a database connection” – bear with meI’ve installed PHP 5, and now I have a new problem… it doesn’t see MySQL at all. When I use PHPINFO(), it shows no entry for MySQL. Looking at the php.ini file however, all of the values are unremarked as they should be.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: “Error establishing a database connection” – bear with meI thought that it wasn’t recommended to have WordPress running on PHP5?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: “Error establishing a database connection” – bear with meTo continue with the problem…
I fixed the main issue; I had to set the password within mysql using OLD_PASSWORD(); once I did that, it was able to connect to the database.
However I’m now seeing the same error message again, except later in the installation. I make it through setup-config.php just fine, but when I move to the next step (install.php) it returns a “cannot connect” error again. Obviously it can connect to the database, as it just did in the prior step.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: “Error establishing a database connection” – bear with meIt’s the first message – for whatever reason, it’s not seeing the database server at all (I’m assuming).
If it’s any help, the box is Windows XP with PHP enabled via IIS. I also have MS-SQL installed; although I don’t think that it would cause a conflict of some sort, I’m not entirely ruling it out.
I was concerned that perhaps PHP requires some tampering to connect to MySQL, but according to what I’ve read, PHP4 on Windows requires no configuration, as MySQL is set up right out of the box.