1. Load your Plesk Control Panel.
    This can normally be found at https://www.youdomain.com:8443 if you did not know already.

2. Login to the Plesk Control Panel with your username and password

3. Click the 'Databases' button once you have logged in.

4. You should now see this:

5. In the box next to 'Database name:' enter the name you wish to use for your database. This can be anything you like, so long as you do not use _ (underscores) in your DB name.

If you get an error about the database name already existing, you need to try another unique database name, as someone on the server is using the one you picked. Don't forget, you can put anything you like though.

6. Click the 'Add' button to the right of the box.

7. On the next page, you should see something similar to below:

8. Enter the username you would like to use in the box to the right of 'New user:' that you would like to use for accessing the database (and for your scripts to connect to the database)

If you get an error about the username already existing, you need to try another unique username, as someone on the server is using the one you picked. Don't forget, you can put anything you like though.

9. Click the 'Add' button to the right of the box

10. You should now see this on your screen:

11. Enter the password you would like to use in the box to the right of 'New password:' that you would like to use for accessing the database (and for your scripts to connect to the database). Confirm it again in the second box.

The password should be between 5 - 14 characters, and only contain A -Z and 0 -9.

12. Click the 'Update' button to the right of the box

13. You should now see the list of users for your db:

14. Click phpMyAdmin button to open phpMyAdmin and edit your new database, or click 'Up Level' to return to the 'Database' section, and 'Up Level' once again to return to main menu.

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