Wow! Using phpmyadmin, new user bugs, hostname localhost, no associated database (let check script handle that) and it went through! Now I have to debug wny http://localhost/bugzilla/index.cgi produces the contents of the index.cgi file instead of the proper page. Scott On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, David Mackintosh wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:59:43AM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote: >> Creating database bugs... >> The 'bugs' database could not be created. The error returned was: >> >> Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'bugs' > > I've seen this problem before, but I can't find my notes on it. > > Try creating a user "bugs at localhost" instead just creating a user > "bugs" -- to mysql, they are different. > > -- > /\oo/\ > / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | > dave at xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com >