need help adding WP to a doteasy.com site!!

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  sadakoshikami · Member · Dec 6, 2006 at 1:55 am

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  i’ve read and re-read the manuals/tutorials for both my domain’s SQL setup, and wordpress … everything looks great, everything matches up perfectly … i get an error when i try to go to mydomain.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php …
  “Error establishing a database connection

  This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we

  the tutorial for WP at doteasy.com says i won’t need “localhost” 99% of the time, so don’t change it in wp-config.php. so, i didn’t. do i need to?? if so, what do i change it to?? thanks!!!!

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 6, 2006 at 2:31 am

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  If you’re downloading WordPress software and installing it on your own space, you need to be at WordPress.org, not WordPress.com. We use a shared blogging platform on different software and can’t help you here.