ruthannf

Hi moshu —

I thought that saying that the video was a good one meant that I had gone through it.

My MySQL looks a little different (because I’ve gone through the installation process already?) and has the two strings of text for Perl and PHP:

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MySQL Account Maintenance

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Current Databases:
insteorg_wordpress
Users in wordpress
insteorg_admin (Privileges: ALL PRIVILEGES)

Connection Strings
Perl $dbh = DBI->connect(“DBI:mysql:insteorg_wordpress:localhost”,”insteorg_admin”,”<PASSWORD HERE>”);
PHP $dbh=mysql_connect (“localhost”, “insteorg_admin”, “<PASSWORD HERE>”) or die (‘I cannot connect to the database because: ‘ . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db (“insteorg_wordpress”);

New Database:

——————————————————————————–

Current Users:
insteorg_admin
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And it does show “local host”, so that’s right.

So, if it tells me this much:

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Current Databases:
insteorg_wordpress
Users in wordpress
insteorg_admin (Privileges: ALL PRIVILEGES)
~~~~~

And I have the following in my wp-config file:

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// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘insteorg_wordpress’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘insteorg_admin’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘same as in MySQL’) // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
~~~~~

I THINK I’ve done everything in the video. Including the Important part. But I still get the same error when I try to run mysite.org/wp-admin.

Thanks for helping — I greatly appreciate it.

Ruth Ann
P.S.
I’ll be in a long meeting for about the next 4-5 hours. I’ll be able to recheck this following that.

Wow. That tutorial is really great.

However, before and after reading this tutorial, my database name, user name and password for cPanel/MySQL database and wp-config were and are the same. Both have db name insteorg_wordpress and user name insteorg_admin. In fact, the passwords also match.

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;-<

Ruth Ann

Hi, sorry I wasn’t more explicit. And, it seems that my error, while reading the same, did not have the same fix. Here’s where I stand: I have edited the wp-config file; user is X and password is XX. I have edited the MySql database and user is X and password is XX. My cPanel is v. 10, and MySQL is 4.1.21 “standard”. So the login and password are the same in both MySQL in cPanel and wp-admin.

When I try to go to my blogpage I get the following error:

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Error establishing a database connection
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
Are you sure that the database server is running?
If you’re unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums.
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And this is either by directly addressing it, or by using the “View Site” link in the wp-admin program.

I certainly would appreciate any help you can offer. I like the blogging and find WordPress pretty nice (except I have done something wrong and can’t troubleshoot it myself).

And I’m sorry, I really don’t want to have someone build it for me, as I want to have the knowledge, so I can put one up for my family, etc. So I don’t want to have one of your people build the blog for me. This seems so straightforward, I know it’s something really dumb.

Thanks —

Ruth Ann

So, please, veliapola, tell me what you did to conquer the error message. I’m getting the same thing.
Thanks —
Ruth Ann

I’m having the same problem but I don’t think my hardware/software is the same as his.

Username for CPanel X: username
Password for CPanel X: password

Username for MySQL: username
Password for MySQL: password

Username for WordPress: username
Password for WordPress: password

And I get exactly the same error message same as this thread’s beginner.

I’m new to blogging and WordPress, but it looks pretty straightforward — WordPress needs to access MySQL on my website’s host; and vice versa.

Am I right?

Any help you could give, I’d certainly appreciate it.

Ruth Ann