Solved – Error Establishing a Database Connection

Hi, I’m a total newbie who just found out how to install WordPress on my localhost.

I searched everywhere on the web for the solution and had to combine many solutions together just to get WordPress to work, but when I finally solved my issue, I found out it was actually quite simple.

I kept getting “Error Establishing a Database Connection”, which meant two issues in my case.

1 – My MAMP mySQL root password was not, “root”, like written on the documentation. In fact, it was empty.
2 – There was no database for my /wordpress site.

Solution for 1
Went on the MySQL tab on MAMP.
Changed the password to whatever I liked.
Went on the wp-config.php file of my /wordpress folder.
Changed the database password to new root MySQL

Solution for 2
I downloaded phpMyAdmin, installed it, and launched it from MAMP.
Then, I went on the “Database” tab and created a database the same name as the folder where I put the wordpress files. In my case “wordpress” under the type “Collation”.

Relaunched wordpressed and worked like a charm!