Still No Luck :(

The installer doesn’t create the database for you. You’ll need to create the database and the user first (remembering to give that user full rights to the database) before WP will install.

how does one do that ?

first off… change the db host to just “local host” you most likely wont even need to change that to anything at all

You create the database by going into your control panel and going into your mySql. Create a user, password and a database and make sure that you have added that user to that database you created.

Remember the name you give for the database, the user and password and edit it to that in your config.php

Try :

(‘DB_HOST’, ‘????.com’)

Into mysql ? how ?

https://help.uk2.net/faq/cgi/databasesmysql.html – it’s not localhost… and you did get the right user/pass from them ?

(I deal with this host ……. clever isn’t a word I’d use)

Now i get this error

We’re having a little trouble selecting the proper database for WordPress.

* Are you sure it exists?
* Your database name is currently specified as wordpress. Is this correct?
* On some systems the name of your database is prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_wordpress. Could that be the problem?

Edit wp-config.php and the host line I wrote goes there

I havent typed in localhost but ???????.com change in error see above

i have the correct username & password for the DB

User and pass are correct, as is host.

Have YOU created ‘wordpress’ ?
If not, then from their faq:
“Your username and database will almost certainly be your domain name, with some characters replaced by underscores (_), and ending with the number 1. Don’t miss the number out, or it won’t work.”

wordpress ? you mean the database ?

Yup

how do i create the database in mysql ?

i havent created it atm because i dont know how ??