https://business.forums.bt.com/t5/Archive/Problem-Connecting-to-Wordpress-DB/m-p/32859#M13733 <P>I am setting up wordpress on my site, my username and password are recognised by wordpress but I but seem to have problems connecting to the database. When creating the DB in the BT Database managment tool the note says that the dadatbase name is appended by the username i.e. this is my database "<FONT face="courier new,courier">mydb_mysite_co_uk</FONT>" but to access it should be "<FONT face="courier new,courier">mydb_mysite_co_uk_username</FONT>" this does not work I have tried every variation no Username,&nbsp; prepended username&nbsp; and appended username.</P><P>Wordpress install suggests that there may be permission issues with the username I have tried accessing PHP my admin to manually check the permissions but this gives me a 403 error.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Can anyone help</P> Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:45:00 GMT weecb 2011-12-11T12:45:00Z https://business.forums.bt.com/t5/Archive/Problem-Connecting-to-Wordpress-DB/m-p/32859#M13733 <P>I am setting up wordpress on my site, my username and password are recognised by wordpress but I but seem to have problems connecting to the database. When creating the DB in the BT Database managment tool the note says that the dadatbase name is appended by the username i.e. this is my database "<FONT face="courier new,courier">mydb_mysite_co_uk</FONT>" but to access it should be "<FONT face="courier new,courier">mydb_mysite_co_uk_username</FONT>" this does not work I have tried every variation no Username,&nbsp; prepended username&nbsp; and appended username.</P><P>Wordpress install suggests that there may be permission issues with the username I have tried accessing PHP my admin to manually check the permissions but this gives me a 403 error.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Can anyone help</P> Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:45:00 GMT https://business.forums.bt.com/t5/Archive/Problem-Connecting-to-Wordpress-DB/m-p/32859#M13733 weecb 2011-12-11T12:45:00Z https://business.forums.bt.com/t5/Archive/Problem-Connecting-to-Wordpress-DB/m-p/32975#M13734 <P><FONT face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The database name to use in Wordpress will be mydb_mysite_co_uk.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The username will be entered in a separate field and will be the one that is automatically assigned to you (will look something like mysitecouk255466, etc)</FONT></P> Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:06:58 GMT https://business.forums.bt.com/t5/Archive/Problem-Connecting-to-Wordpress-DB/m-p/32975#M13734 dave 2011-12-16T15:06:58Z