newbie stuck

[longhornfan]

new to webpage and mysqyl stuff so please be kind. i have followed the instructions closely or what i think is closely and am getting the following message

"SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE UNTIL YOU SEE A CONFIRMATION BOX

Unable to connect to the photo database server at this time
PLEASE PRESS REFRESH ON YOUR BROWSER TO TRY AGAIN.

Why do you get this error? Maybe because:

The database server has not been activated for you domain
your username/password is wrong.
The database server in offline for some reason"

i have checked everything about 10 times and am running out of ideas of what can be wrong. i have created the sqyl database on the server i have even created a user and password i have tried the tips in the instructions and i still can not get it to work. any ideas would be helpful. i am hosting my site with ipowerweb.com (which by the way i love) if that helps any.

thanks in advance for any advice

felix
www.mycanon10d.com

[kd_121]

When I initially installed it i had the same problem. The install script isn't actually running, and you just see the text and code. I installed PHPmyAdmin at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ and it wouldn't connect to the syq database either. I talked to my host co. and they gave me the correct info to connect.

I would suggest trying PHPmyAdmin to see if you can actually connect to the database. If not, then either the info that your host co. has given you is wrong, or they didn't set the db up properly (unlikely.) Of course double check the host server name, database name, user name, and password for the db in your connect.php file.

Best of luck.

[Guillermo Freige]

This happens when MySQL is not present in the system (at least in my system). After installing MySQL server and start the service, all works fine
Also check if your configuration file is pointing to the MySQL server.

[longhornfan]

thanks for all the ideas, i know that phpmyadmin is allready installed and i will be contacting my host company (ipowerweb.com which i have to plug because they have to be the best hosting company i have dealt with) to make sure that the database is running and that i am doing the right thing. i can't wait to to get this installed and start putting a lot more of my photos up.

thanks again

felix