Error: Cannot connect to the child database

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Try to create a new child site using a different database

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected a child site to be created.

What happened was the following error...
0 - An error has occurred.
Cannot connect to the child database

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.0.1
Mac OSX Firefox 3.6

Please provide any additional information below.
I have this working on identical setups on other sites on my server. Very
confusing.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by webmonk...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2010 at 2:01

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I had this problem and found that for some reason WCP was using the wrong 
password when it tried to connect to the database.  Similarly it was working on 
one copy of the same site, but not the other.  Very odd.

Original comment by samco...@googlemail.com on 2 Jul 2010 at 8:54

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I am having the same problem with a Joomla 1.5.20 website WCP 1.0.1 with 
Virtuemart. Error: 0 Cannot connect to the child database.

Paid special attention to the password for the database and no luck. I even 
tried pointing the child db to a new db I created. no joy. 

The only thing different about this site vs. other Joomla sites that WCP works 
on is that this site runs Virtuemart.

BTW, I get the same "Cannot connect to the child database." error even if I 
tell WCP to copy files and NOT copy database. ???

Any help would be much appreciated.

Jack

Original comment by jack%tdg...@gtempaccount.com on 26 Feb 2011 at 12:11