“Error establishing a database connection” when installing Wordpress on OS X
December 15th, 2009 by Jim
This drove me nuts for a few days. I’ve been trying to set up a test environment on my desktop so that I can work through website iterations without fouling up this site. I walked through all the tutorials out there, but just could not get my Wordpress install to work.
Username, password, hostname were double and triple checked.
It turns out, that when I was installing MySQL on my computer (following the official instructions, which are just fine), I set up a UNIX socket. When I was setting up phpMyAdmin it explicitly asked for the socket… but Wordpress doesn’t, so it had never occurred to me to enter it.
You should enter it.
It’s for my local camera club, btw. Look for a new page some time into the new year.
