MAMP WordPress and Error establishing a database connection
I?ve installed MAMP on my Mac to do some changes to my blog. I tried to set the WordPress wp-config.php file to connect to localhost:8889, but got an error that It could not connect to the database. After replacing localhost:8889 to 127.0.0.1:8889 it works. My quick guess is that permissions for the root user is set to allow connections 127.0.0.1, but not localhost. Anyway, it works now.
My wp-config.php file looks like this:
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'root');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'root');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1:8889');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'root');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'root');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1:8889');
Thanks! Just the solution to my problem too
I tried doing that and didn’t work. Any thoughts as to why?
Actually it did establish the connection to the database but it now says “WPMU only works without the port number in the URL.”
thankz alot.. simple solution but work…
i use windows 7 and i change localhost became 127.0.0.1 and everything work..