localhost for wordpress

[lewislevin]

Before I map my domains to Hawkhost I am getting everything working. This means I am using the temp domain that Hawkhost provided. Once all is working, then I'll remap.

Most has gone very well indeed.

Latest stumble: when running install script for wp, it tells me the following:

Can

[Tony]

The mysql hostname should be localhost. For the database info it's whatever you called it in cPanel and it lists them with their full names as well. So if you put wordpress it would be lewislev_wordpress for example.

[lewislevin]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Here are the mysql params from my wp-config.php file:

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //

/** The name of the database for WordPress */

define('DB_NAME', 'lewislev_wordpress');

/** MySQL database username */

define('DB_USER', 'lewislev_lewisl');

/** MySQL database password */

define('DB_PASSWORD', '*******');

/** MySQL hostname */

define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

The database certainly exists. The user exists with valid password (confirmed by wordpress diagnostic).

I'm flummoxed.

[Tony]

Did you make sure to give the user access to the database through cPanel? That's usually what people forget to do.

[lewislevin]

I think so. The user shows up as a user for that database. I'll look again.

[lewislevin]

that user is definitely added to that database.

This has got to be something stupid associated with things in the wrong directory or some simple setting problem that has no error diagnostics.

How can we resolve?

[Tony]

When I checked last night there was no user associated with the database. I spoke with the technician who handled your ticket and they noticed the same thing and added the user to the database.