What are the permissions for the database? Does the user you're using to connect as have sufficient permissions to create tables?
I've noticed that depending on what version of PHP you are using, the `default` settings change as far as reporting errors.
In my case, I found that using OpenGoo using WAMP results in white pages when some sort of issue occurs, then I've used a LAMP server, and this time been bombarded with WARNING messages.
If you check out
error_reporting you'll see how to use it.
It seems that if you're receiving a white page, and nothing else after DB connectivity attempts, you may try and change the default PHP settings so that it reports on ERRORS, or you can attempt to change the PHP files the devs here have created and include:
<?php
error_reporting(6143);
?>
at the begging of the page that does the DB connectivity.