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 *   Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
   
   In reply to: [Error establishing a database connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-303/)
 *  Thread Starter [simile35](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simile35/)
 * (@simile35)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-303/#post-2270342)
 * resolved.
 * For some reason the install form wasn’t writing to the config file. When I manually
   edited the config file it worked perfectly.
 * Thanks for the help.
 *   Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
   
   In reply to: [Error establishing a database connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-303/)
 *  Thread Starter [simile35](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simile35/)
 * (@simile35)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-303/#post-2270336)
 * > All right sparky! You’ve made it through this part of the installation. WordPress
   > can now communicate with your database. If you are ready, time now to…
 * click run install.
 * connection error
 *   Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
   
   In reply to: [Error establishing a database connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-303/)
 *  Thread Starter [simile35](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simile35/)
 * (@simile35)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-303/#post-2270330)
 * Actually I did go into phpmyadmin and add the user simile.
 * I tried the root account and the same things happened. I got this message “alright
   sparky you’re ready…” and then back to the connection error page.
 *   Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
   
   In reply to: [Error establishing a database connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-303/)
 *  Thread Starter [simile35](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simile35/)
 * (@simile35)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-303/#post-2270323)
 * 2ninerniner2
 * hostname: localhost
    username: simile35 password: ****** database name: wordpress
 * on my xampp control panel both apache and mysql are running.
 * secondv
 * I couldn’t find an error log in mysql data but I found one in apache
    these are
   the errors that showed up.
 * > [Tue Aug 30 10:01:40 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: 
   > C:/xampp/htdocs/arm-manifests
   >  [Tue Aug 30 10:01:43 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
   > File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/arm-manifests [Tue Aug 30 10:01:52 2011][
   > error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/pki [Tue Aug
   > 30 10:02:05 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/
   > htdocs/ThawteTimestampingCA.crl, referer: app:/StageManager-2.5.swf [Tue Aug
   > 30 10:02:08 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/
   > htdocs/ResourceCentralAtomPub_v1, referer: app://C:/Program Files (x86)/Common
   > Files/Adobe/CS5.5ServiceManager/extensions/MYMESSAGES/ResourceCentral.swf?extID
   > =com.adobe.rc.mymessages&appID=PPRO [Tue Aug 30 10:02:29 2011] [error] [client
   > 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/webfeed [Tue Aug 30 10:05:30
   > 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/favicon.
   > ico [Tue Aug 30 10:05:30 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist:
   > C:/xampp/htdocs/favicon.ico [Tue Aug 30 10:05:30 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
   > File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/favicon.ico

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