{"id":33695,"date":"2016-09-18T16:11:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T16:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/support\/?p=44"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:13:48","slug":"how-to-create-a-database-username-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"epkb_post_type_1","link":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/knowledge-base\/how-to-create-a-database-username-in-cpanel","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a Database Username in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>1.<\/strong> Log in to your cPanel account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>2.<\/strong> In the <strong>Databases<\/strong> section, click on <strong>MySQL Databases<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/mysql-databases-icon.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>3.<\/strong> Under <strong>MySQL Users<\/strong>, in the <strong>Username<\/strong> field, enter the new username you want to create.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>4.<\/strong> Enter your new password or use a password generator.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/createdb-user.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>5.<\/strong> Click on <strong>Create a User<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Tip:<\/strong> Write down the database username and password on a notepad so you can easily recall them while installing a script manually.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Log in to your cPanel account. 2. In the Databases section, click on MySQL Databases. 3. Under MySQL Users, in the Username field, enter the new username you want to create. 4. Enter your new password or use a password generator. 5. Click on Create a User. Tip: Write down the database username and &#8230; <a title=\"How to Create a Database Username in cPanel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/knowledge-base\/how-to-create-a-database-username-in-cpanel\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to Create a Database Username in cPanel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"epkb_post_type_1_category":[88],"epkb_post_type_1_tag":[],"class_list":["post-33695","epkb_post_type_1","type-epkb_post_type_1","status-publish","hentry","epkb_post_type_1_category-databases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1\/33695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/types\/epkb_post_type_1"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1\/33695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"epkb_post_type_1_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1_category?post=33695"},{"taxonomy":"epkb_post_type_1_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1_tag?post=33695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}