Recent content by hatchetdown

Carl6969, I am indeed attempting a fresh install, and whenever it doesn't work, I delete the entire phpBB directory, delete all databases/database users in cPanel, re-extract phpBB from the official (checksum-ed) ZIP archive (extracting it inside public_html), then remake databases and re-apply...

Really!? Nobody has any idea why it's impossible to install the world's most popular forum software on this site!

I've had two other problems installing this that were caused by x10's configuration, and I'm suspecting that this problem might be no different. Anyway, I went through the phpBB installer and got to the end with no errors where it says something like "Congratulations, phpBB is setup and ready...

Right, thanks for the insight on the naming convention. So is this naming system even compatible with phpBB3's installer? Should I even be pre-pending that prefix to the database name and usernames in phpBB at all? I've been on this all day, must be getting close to brute-forcing the correct...

Yeah, I set that the first time around: At this point, I've tried making new databases, adding new users, linking the users to the database with all the permissions, all in "cPanel>MySQL Databases" but still get the same error in the phpBB installer... Does anyone know why there's a prefix...

I'm trying to install phpBB3 (the latest stable release) and it's all going sweet until the install page asks for the database settings. What it asks for: (my responses in blue) Database type: "MySQL" Database server hostname or DSN: I tried both leaving blank and setting to "localhost" DSN...

This seems to be resolved. guess it was just the upgrades...

Thanks for the quick reply, it just didn't say anything about databases specifically so I may have been a bit too itchy. Guess I'll just have to wait and see either way...

I'm trying to create a MySQL database in cPanel, on a free account on stoli, but no method seems to work. It's been like this since yesterday. Trying via the "MySQL Databases" app, injects this error into the cPanel page: Error while connecting to MySQL. Failover enacted. Trying via "MySQL...