I'm having trouble connecting to a database during an install of Wordpress on my free domain and wondered if anyone can help me out.. I'm fairly proficient in all this so I must be missing something somewhere or just plain tired! lol ..
Anyway, I have created my SQL database and user and assigned priviliges accordingly. I then made the necassary changes to the wp-config file (for wordpress) and uploaded... but just to confirm these are correct:
Database Name: thebaldock_livedb
Database User: thebaldock_liveadmin
Hostname: localhost
Now when I browse to the install path at http://thebaldock.uuuq.com/wp-admin/install.php 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?
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?
Now im sure I have entered all the correct parameters and settings so can anyone point me in the right direction???
Thanks in advance,
Rob.
so only my ignorance to blame .. plus I thought the limit was on the bit after the underscore '_' not inclusive so there you go, you learn something new everyday!