WordPress on Snow Leopard: Unable to Connect to Database

OS X, Web Development, Web Hosting, Wordpress 1 Minute

If an “unable to connect to database” comes up while installing WordPress on a Snow Leopard machine, try adding :3306 to the end of the DB_HOST in wp-config.php

Assuming everything else works, this should solve your problem!

Published by Jeremy Massel

Jeremy is a Mobile Infrastructure Engineer at Automattic.

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