niicaux on "wordpress installation on localhost returns db errors"

Hi there,

After running the 'repair' database during installation of WordPress on my localhost, I receive the following error message.

I take these to mean the respective tables have not been created. Why would that happen?

wp_posts: Table 'wpdb.wp_posts' doesn't exist
wp_Idea: Table 'wpdb.wp_Idea' doesn't exist
wp_links: Table 'wpdb.wp_links' doesn't exist
wp_options: Table 'wpdb.wp_options' doesn't exist
wp_postmeta: Table 'wpdb.wp_postmeta' doesn't exist
wp_terms: Table 'wpdb.wp_terms' doesn't exist
wp_term_taxonomy: Table 'wpdb.wp_term_taxonomy' doesn't exist
wp_term_relationships: Table 'wpdb.wp_term_relationships' doesn't exist
wp_termmeta: Table 'wpdb.wp_termmeta' doesn't exist
wp_commentmeta: Table 'wpdb.wp_commentmeta' doesn't exist

Your help would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Nick

do you have the database prefix set correctly in wp-config.php?

I have not touched anything else.
In the initial setup screen where it asks for the database name and so forth, I only entered the database name (wpdb) and the useame, with the host as 'localhost'. The database prefix was left at the default value of wp_

When adding the script to wp-config to repair the table, I added it as the last line of the other variable definitions.

...
define('NONCE_SALT', '%qruCu*>$,<e:twsS$=jE%;Fr d+>?C~UFuZ&OIml)rb<lq7c*D ,(%J/{dTDYfl');
define('WP_ALLOW_REPAIR', true);

Btw,

Would the following values have anything to do with my problem?

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8mb4');
/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

Also, these two initial tables were created fine.

The wp_users table is okay.

The wp_usermeta table is okay.