Joomla Problem

[snipesaholic]

I know the servers are under a lot of work but this problem has stuck with me for 4 days. I have been trying to install Joomla with all the databases setup etc. Everything is in order but it always says:

Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL

Im on Stoli btw,

 

[snipesaholic]

no one?

 

[masshuu]

are you using localhost?

 

[snipesaholic]

yup

 

[masshuu]

which server are you on

 

[snipesaholic]

stoli

 

[sharlaxismp]

You need to make a database with allowing the user to have all privileges. Make sure you've done that.

 

[snipesaholic]

done that also

 

[masshuu]

the issue i am seeing is Could not connect to MySQL
not access denied

[edit]
all i can say is doublecheck everything. If you can, Post your mysql connection details(except for the password) and maybe we can learn something from that

 

[sharlaxismp]

Like matthew said, double check everything. I know I had a problem with my database also when I started it, but it was a typo error.

 

[snipesaholic]

Host Name: localhost
User Name: snipes_admin
Password: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Database Name: snipes_jdb

 

[snipesaholic]

???

 

[Derek]

Is the actual databased linked to the user with all permissions?

 

[AngusThermopyle]

Place this script ( say, foo.php ) in public_html and then run it from the web:

DEFINE ('DB_HOST', 'localhost' );
DEFINE ('DB_USER', 'snipes_admin');
DEFINE ('DB_PASSWORD' , "secretWordHere" );
DEFINE ('DB_NAME', "snipes_jdb" );


$link = mysqli_connect(  DB_HOST , DB_USER , DB_PASSWORD , DB_NAME  );

if (!$link)
  { 

   $failure_reason =  mysqli_connect_error();
   $failure_no = mysqli_connect_errno() ;

   echo "Connection failed: $failure_reason  Error Number: $failure_no";

  } else {

   echo "Success!  Was able to connect" ;
   mysqli_close( $link ) ;
  }

See if you can do a basic connect.

 

[snipesaholic]

cant seem to get the script working

 

[descalzo]

cant seem to get the script working

Can you be just a tiny bit more specific?

 

[snipesaholic]

Sorry im not sure if im uploading it correctly. Saved as php then uploaded to site. did not work unless im doing it wrong :S

 

[Derek]

OK, just go to the cPanel and go to Scriptaculous and you can install Joomla there within 5 minutes no hassle.

 

[snipesaholic]

OK, just go to the cPanel and go to Scriptaculous and you can install Joomla there within 5 minutes no hassle.

ha i wish been there done that, same problem

 

[Derek]

I doubt that would happen unless the mysql server is down, what is your website url... or troll