{"id":25521,"date":"2003-11-14T18:13:55","date_gmt":"2003-11-14T18:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/problems-upon-launching-wp-install\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T18:15:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:15:31","slug":"problems-upon-launching-wp-install","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/problems-upon-launching-wp-install\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems upon launching wp-install"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings&#8230;having a few setup problems.<br \/>\nWhen I tried to launch wp-install in Internet Explorer, I got the following:<br \/>\nSQL\/DB Error &#8212;<br \/>\n[<br \/>\nError establishing a database connection!<br \/>\nAre you sure you have the correct user\/password?<br \/>\nAre you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?<br \/>\nAre you sure that the database server is running?<br \/>\n]<br \/>\nSQL\/DB Error &#8212;<br \/>\n[<br \/>\nError selecting database wordpress!<br \/>\nAre you sure it exists?<br \/>\nAre you sure there is a valid database connection?<br \/>\n]<br \/>\nThen, underneath that, the &#8220;Welcome to wordpress&#8221; paragraph.  Any ideas what&#8217;s wrong?<br \/>\nThanks in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-25521","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/25521","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\/25521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}