WordPress Error

  • I try to connect to the database, but every time I try to do it, it won’t establish a connection to the link for WordPress.

    Does anyone know how to try and solve this problem. I’ve absolutely tried to follow everything and still nothing wouldn’t work.

    This is the message I do get anyway. I am using Windows 8.1

    I’ve read all that and tried to establish everything, but still the problem persists. Is there anybody there techy enough to do it – it should come up like straight away. I don’t understand it!

    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 database_name_here database.
    ?Are you sure it exists?
    ?Does the user root have permission to use the database_name_here database?
    ?On some systems the name of your database is prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_database_name_here. Could that be the problem

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  • Hi, stuart89, & welcome. Is this a local install? If so, did you use anything like Xampp or Wampp or Ampps?

    Did you fill in the correct username, database name, & password in wp-config? It sounds as though the message is saying your database name is incorrect.

    Hi,

    This may be because of your mismatched database name in wp-config.php and phpmyadmin files.

    Hello Stuart89,

    If you are using localhost (xampp) and if you don’t have a password of the database user just leave the password option blank (“”). The default user for xampp on Windows is root.

    The tables of WordPress are usually with a prefix wp_, you can also change that in wp-config.php.

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