I was cutting and pasting the Database info into either the wp-config file or the wizard that creates the wp-config file.
\nI used Dreamweaver to view and edit.<\/p>\n
I could not get it to connect so I finally called my host 1and1 with what appeared to be the correct DB settings.
\nThey checked the code and said there was a space in front of the pw and host name.
\nThere was no such space in Dreamweaver.
\nI used notepad++ to edit the file and whoa doggy, there were in fact spaces.<\/p>\n
I use the Firefox extension for cutting where you just have to highlight the text and it automatically puts it in the clipboard..
\nWhen I pasted it there was a tab space in front of the text, so I would just delete that.
\nApparently I was missing the invisible space. (is that an oxymoron?)<\/p>\n
After fixing said spaces, the install proceeded as expected.<\/p>\n
I hope this helps somebody.<\/p>\n
Mark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1208722","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-database-connection-error"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1208722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1208722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}