web site inaccessable for nearly a week

[bluegruntfuttock]

am losing visitors hand over fist at the moment and as time is going on, my visitors are going to other sites.

Why is my site still unavailable in nearly a week.

Getting message

Coppermine critical error:
Unable to connect to database !

MySQL said: Access denied for user 'ftas_ftas'@'lotus.x10hosting.com' (using password: YES)

 

[Zubair]

am losing visitors hand over fist at the moment and as time is going on, my visitors are going to other sites.

Why is my site still unavailable in nearly a week.

Getting message

Coppermine critical error:
Unable to connect to database !

MySQL said: Access denied for user 'ftas_ftas'@'lotus.x10hosting.com' (using password: YES)

Change your database HOST to 'localhost'

 

[bluegruntfuttock]

can you please explain how i do that please?

 

[descalzo]

Open the "config.inc.php" in the "include" directory.

There should be a variable named something like $HOST or $dbhost. It should be set to 'localhost'.

 

[bluegruntfuttock]

Here is a copy of the file you mention, I cannot see host or dbhost anywhere, is it me?

<?php
// Coppermine configuration file

// MySQL configuration
$CONFIG['dbserver'] = 'mysql-lotus.x10hosting.com'; // Your database server
$CONFIG['dbuser'] = 'ftas_ftas'; // Your mysql username
$CONFIG['dbpass'] = 'xxxxxx'; // Your mysql password
$CONFIG['dbname'] = 'ftas_ftas'; // Your mysql database name


// MySQL TABLE NAMES PREFIX
$CONFIG['TABLE_PREFIX'] = 'cpg_';
?>

 

[Livewire]

Here is a copy of the file you mention, I cannot see host or dbhost anywhere, is it me?

<?php
// Coppermine configuration file

// MySQL configuration
$CONFIG['dbserver'] = 'mysql-lotus.x10hosting.com'; // Your database server
$CONFIG['dbuser'] = 'ftas_ftas'; // Your mysql username
$CONFIG['dbpass'] = 'za1vfcucao'; // Your mysql password
$CONFIG['dbname'] = 'ftas_ftas'; // Your mysql database name


// MySQL TABLE NAMES PREFIX
$CONFIG['TABLE_PREFIX'] = 'cpg_';
?>

$CONFIG['dbserver'] = 'mysql-lotus.x10hosting.com'; // Your database server

Change to

$CONFIG['dbserver'] = 'localhost'; // Your database server

EDIT 2/11/1:55pm CDT: Fixed my faulty code, I either hit a key twice or hit shift and turned ' into " by accident, my bad. Hope no one shoots me for it

 

[bluegruntfuttock]

ok, pasted the line over the old line, now receive the following error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/ftas/public_html/include/config.inc.php on line 7

 

[leafypiggy]

$CONFIG['dbserver'] = 'mysql-lotus.x10hosting.com'; // Your database server

make that

$CONFIG['dbserver'] =' localhost'; // Your database server

Also, please edit out your database password from your above post.
Edit:

ok, pasted the line over the old line, now receive the following error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/ftas/public_html/include/config.inc.php on line 7

Do what I said, just replace the line with my code. Livewire's code was faulty.

 

[bluegruntfuttock]

done that (and edited password(thanks)), however first the password appears in quote, and second, now getting this error

Coppermine critical error:
Unable to connect to database !

MySQL said: Unknown MySQL server host ' localhost' (3)

 

[Livewire]

Do what I said, just replace the line with my code. Livewire's code was faulty.

Yes, it was - I hit shift on the ' which made it " >_<

Editing my original post to remove the code so it doesn't screw anyone else up, sorry folks!

 

[bluegruntfuttock]

To clarify where I am at the moment,

Have pasted the following in and saved it

$CONFIG['dbserver'] = 'localhost'; // Your database server

Now receiving the following error

Coppermine critical error:
Unable to connect to database !

MySQL said: Access denied for user 'ftas_ftas'@'lotus.x10hosting.com' (using password: YES)
Edit:
Any further help here? Still have error message as shown in previous post
Edit:
any futher progress here? I stil have error message as shown on previous post