nothing2fancy » php http://nothing2fancy.com pew-pew Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:27:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 “Error establishing a database connection” when installing Wordpress on OS X http://nothing2fancy.com/2009/12/15/error-establishing-a-database-connection-when-installing-wordpress-on-os-x/ http://nothing2fancy.com/2009/12/15/error-establishing-a-database-connection-when-installing-wordpress-on-os-x/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:08:55 +0000 Jim http://nothing2fancy.com/?p=342 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.

WordPress › Error.png

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.

wp-config.php - Focus Group Camera Club.png

It’s for my local camera club, btw. Look for a new page some time into the new year.

Focus Group Camera Club.png
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