Bluehost : Wordpress Manual Install Problems

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This is a bluehost question posted by tmelly on 02 October 2007

So I’m going with the manual install of Wordpress. I’ve downloaded the files, attempted to make the MySQL database, updated the wp-config.php file and I’m trying to install, I receive this error message.

“Error establishing a database connection
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host’s database server is down.”

I used the MySQL Database Wizard to set up the db and I was able to easily identify the:

Database name
Username
Password

I left the DB_HOST as ‘localhost’ as I was unsure where I can find this information. If there is something I can do in to make sure I’m entering the proper information in wp-config.php file or to make sure the database is up and running correctly?

This is all pretty new to me. Any help would be appreciated.

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