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I'm installing Serendipity on my site, it meets all the requirements, but I can't get the MySQL to work. I've checked the settings many, many times.

I'm getting this error:

We detected some errors while running some diagnostics on your entered information:

- The database you specified does not exist.
The mySQL error was: Access denied for user: 'boredboa_serendi@localhost' to database 'serendipity'

Can you login using boredboa_serendi from the command line? Or phpMyadmin? If you can't, then serendipity won't work either. I hate to say this, but maybe you need to follow the mysql user guide to setup the database properly first.

Could you tell me where that guide is please? I also have a problem with MySQL and as I don't know anything about it, this might help!

If you installed mysql from a preconfigured package (eg debian), then the following chapters might be of more use:

Sections 3.1 - 3.4 in
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Tutorial.html

Sections 5.6 in
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/MySQL ... ation.html