cant select database error

  • I keep getting this error:

    Can’t select database

    We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the wordpress database.

    * Are you sure it exists?
    * 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?

    I know that the database exists, and although it is one of those w/ the prefixed username, when i put in cheneyma_wordpress into the database field, i get a blank screen on the install.php. if i take the prefix away i get the error. and even though when i made the database i just called it ‘wordpress’ it comes up as cheneyma_wordpress. also, i installed the wordpress files into a folder called wordpress in the public_html directory. is that where they should have gone, or should they have been ftped right into the database??

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  • Make sure the database name in wp_config.php is the same as what it actually installed as and then post back here.

    is that where they should have gone, or should they have been ftped right into the database??

    That’s the perfect place – if you want your blog to be at and address like:
    example.com/wordpress

    Don’t even try to mess around with the DB; acttually you can NOT ftp anything into it.

    Thread Starter iceblink240

    (@iceblink240)

    the database name is the same as what i put in the wp-config file. i have been looking at this for hours and i cannot see a problem anywhere. i even deleted the database and then made a new one again!!

    i tried emailing those people to get them to install it for me, but i have gotten so far, and i have done this before nad not run into any problems. can any of you log in to my server somewhere and try to see the problem in my files??

    Are you sure you have permission to select the database? If you are using CPanel to create databases you have to manually add users to it.

    Thread Starter iceblink240

    (@iceblink240)

    no, it’s phpmyadmin.

    Usually no host lets you to create DB in phpMyadmin – you just manage the DB with it.
    Databases (in my experience with hosts) are created in your site admin panel. Is it different on your host?

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