<p>I'm totally new at craft cms and nitro and I'm having trouble adding a new site. When I get to the part where it asks you which database engine to use there's no options there to choose from and typing in the database info doesn't work either. <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/xNASq.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/xNASq.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
<p>So I'm basically stuck at this point. I'm on mac os catalina. I think I installed everything correctly (nitro and craft itself) but I'm honestly not 100% sure so if there's a way of checking that could someone tell me? I'm about to give up on this so if anyone could help at all that would be amazing. Pretty new to web development so please be kind : ) Thanks!</p>

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2021-05-20T14:03:09.880Z
Do you see a _Databases_ section with one (or more) engines listed when you run `nitro context`?
Oli
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2021-05-20T14:28:48.807Z
Yeah when i do that they are there like this: Databases:
  engine:  mysql 8.0  hostname: mysql-8.0-3306.database.nitro
  username:  nitro  password: nitro
  port:  3306
  ---
  engine:  postgres 13  hostname: postgres-13-5432.database.nitro
  username:  nitro  password: nitro
  port:  5432
  ---  So I guess they are there but its not seeing them for some reason when i try to add a site? Thanks
Claire Browne
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2021-05-20T22:43:17.463Z
If you open Docker Desktop, are all of the containers you see on the first page running and green? Or do you see red/grey ones?
Brad Bell
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When Using Nitro Add and it gets to the choose database engine question, the choices arent there and typing in doesn't work
# When Using Nitro Add and it gets to the choose database engine question, the choices arent there and typing in doesn't work

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-05-20)

I'm totally new at craft cms and nitro and I'm having trouble adding a new site. When I get to the part where it asks you which database engine to use there's no options there to choose from and typing in the database info doesn't work either. [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/xNASq.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/xNASq.png)

So I'm basically stuck at this point. I'm on mac os catalina. I think I installed everything correctly (nitro and craft itself) but I'm honestly not 100% sure so if there's a way of checking that could someone tell me? I'm about to give up on this so if anyone could help at all that would be amazing. Pretty new to web development so please be kind : ) Thanks!

**Tags:** database, nitro
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Do you see a _Databases_ section with one (or more) engines listed when you run `nitro context`?  
> **username_0**: Yeah when i do that they are there like this: Databases:   engine:  mysql 8.0  hostname: mysql-8.0-3306.database.nitro   username:  nitro  password: nitro   port:  3306   ---   engine:  postgres 13  hostname: postgres-13-5432.database.nitro   username:  nitro  password: nitro   port:  5432   ---  So I guess they are there but its not seeing them for some reason when i try to add a site? Thanks  
> **username_2**: If you open Docker Desktop, are all of the containers you see on the first page running and green? Or do you see red/grey ones?  

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