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 *   Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
   
   In reply to: [1&1 problems – wordpress not connecting to database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/11-problems-wordpress-not-connecting-to-database/)
 *  [dstrongbow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dstrongbow/)
 * (@dstrongbow)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/11-problems-wordpress-not-connecting-to-database/#post-1774246)
 * I was attempting to setup wordpress for the first time today too and was having
   some similar problems. Finally seem to have solved it by changing the privileges
   for my user to be explicitly ‘localhost’ rather than any host ‘%’.
 * i.e.
 *     ```
       GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON 'DBname' . * TO 'admin_user'@'localhost';
       ```
   
 * instead of
 *     ```
       GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON 'DBname' . * TO 'admin_user'@'%';
       ```
   
 * HTH someone.

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