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Vincent Bellittera
Vincent Bellittera
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Posted by Vincent Bellittera
Vincent Bellittera
20,411 Points

Looking for help setting up my database for wordpress

Hi everyone. I am trying to configure my database for xampp localhost. I get a error that says:

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 localwp database.

Are you sure it exists? Does the user wpuser have permission to use the localwp database? On some systems the name of your database is prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_localwp. Could that be the problem? If you don't know how to set up a database you should contact your host. If all else fails you may find help at the WordPress Support Forums.

Please help!

9 Answers

Robert Newman
Robert Newman
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Robert Newman
Robert Newman
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Did you setup a user for your Database in phpMyAdmin? Try using the username 'root' with no password.

Vincent Bellittera
Vincent Bellittera
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Vincent Bellittera
Vincent Bellittera
20,411 Points

yes I did set up a DB name, user pass. and a table prefix. Should I still try... I was thinking about uninstalling xampp and reinstalling. Maybe I didn't check one of the boxes when I set it up??

I'm gonna try the 'root' with no password now.

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
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Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
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Make sure in your phpMyAdmin that your database user you set up has full rights over the database you also set up.

Vincent Bellittera
Vincent Bellittera
20,411 Points
Vincent Bellittera
Vincent Bellittera
20,411 Points

My user has full privileges. Is there somewhere else in phpadmin that I have to go to make sure?

Robert Newman
Robert Newman
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Robert Newman
Robert Newman
29,571 Points

If you go to privileges in phpMyadmin and Add user. In there set your username and set the host to 'localhost' and then a password. Then as Kevin said you need to make sure you set all the privileges for that user.

The username 'root' is the default user already created in phpMyAdmin.

You do not need to reinstall xampp :)

Vincent Bellittera
Vincent Bellittera
20,411 Points
Vincent Bellittera
Vincent Bellittera
20,411 Points

You guys will never believe what I did!!! I put wpuser as the database name,,, so I had to put DB name: wpuser user name: wpuser

LOL

Thanks for the quick responses to my unnecessary question guy's, I really appreciate the help!!

Robert Newman
Robert Newman
29,571 Points
Robert Newman
Robert Newman
29,571 Points

Haha glad you sorted it :)

Vincent Bellittera
Vincent Bellittera
20,411 Points
Vincent Bellittera
Vincent Bellittera
20,411 Points

Is having the same name for the DB name and username going to conflict with anything... should I change the DB name?

Robert Newman
Robert Newman
29,571 Points
Robert Newman
Robert Newman
29,571 Points

You can change it if you want but in a local environment it really doesn't matter. I would not recommend it in a live version though., lol