Thread:Project:Support desk/MediaWiki 1.20.2 installation/reply (4)

Maybe you're running into some sort of connection limit so that the connection before it tries to create the database fails?

That sounds really strange to me, but I can't think of any other reason it would fail like that. Have you tried contacting your web host about this?

Since it sounds like you can read code well enough, try modifying it by putting var_dump in various places so you can see what is actually being returned and why it thinks it needs to create the database.