Trouble with Setup

[John - NJ]

I'm getting the following error:

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

Anyone know what this means? I can't get past the setup. Thanks.

[HotDogOne]

EE is having difficulty connecting to your server side database that will store the information.

Did you alter the settings in the connect.php file in the 'add' directory? I forgot to do that and got the same error when I installed 1.05

You need to replace anything in CAPITALS with your own settings see below:




So you need to replace USERNAME, PASSWORD and DATABASENAME - but dont touch anything else.

Email me if you continue to have problems.

stefrench@ntlworld.com

[John - NJ]

HotDogOne wrote:
You need to replace anything in CAPITALS with your own settings see below:

$dbcnx = @mysql_connect("localhost", "USERNAME", "PASSWORD");

if (! @mysql_select_db("DATABASENAME") )

So you need to replace USERNAME, PASSWORD and DATABASENAME - but dont touch anything else.

Stephen:

Do you leave all of the quote marks " " in?

Do you leave "localhost" as is?

Thanks.

[HotDogOne]

Yes and Yes :) Check your email. :)

[John - NJ]

Stephen:

I started with a fresh copy of connect.php and only changed the items you listed. I kept the quotes in. I'm still getting the error message:

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

Maybe Pekka has some suggestions.

Thanks.

[Pekka]

All the errors you get are because the database (socket) connection cannot be done. Could be a server configuration problem. I've also seen this happen when MySQL server is overloaded (server restart fixes that).

See http://www.mysql.com/doc/C/a/Can_not_connect_to_server.html

Try running that info.php which comes with EE. It gives you a lot of data, and there you have one box with MySQL configuration info.

Try also in connect.php:
$dbcnx = @mysql_connect("localhost", "root");

[John - NJ]

Pekka wrote:Try running that info.php which comes with EE. It gives you a lot of data, and there you have one box with MySQL configuration info.


I looked for a file named info.php in the full download and it's not there. Is it something that's created during setup? Since I can't get setup to run I'm not sure.

Thanks.

[Pekka]

Hi John,

No, it was my mistake - it is "php_version.php" (it was once info.php during developement few weeks ago...)

Pekka

[John - NJ]

Thanks for the help.

It turns out that I could not use "localhost" in the connect.php file. mySQL is kept on a different server so I needed to include that server name.

I ran setup and received the following message:

OK. Zero errors. Exhibit Engine 1.05 MySQL database installation is complete.

Now I can go on to the next step.

Thanks again.