franwald

I recently installed the latest version of phpBB2 on my site.
I am able to connect to the install page but when I innitiate the install I get a "CRITICAL ERROR; cannot connect to database.
I went into c-panel/php administration and created a db with the name I wanted to use.
I went back to the install and used this db name and got the same error.
Now what.
I have very little experience in this area and I am totally lost.
can anyone guide me?
Thanks
Frank

David

Basically, do what you just did.

Create the database. No matter what the name, it will be preceeded by your site username. So if your site username is rock, and your database is called database, than the database will actually be called rock_database

Create a user. It will be along the same lines. If the user is named "Mark", than the username will actually be rock_Mark.

The password is just the password.

Localhost is the database location, but it will probably have that selected anyway.

Make sure you assign the user to the database you want that user to use.

Edit:
Also, make sure the config.php file for the phpbb forum is chmodded to 777, so it can write the permissions. You can do that with your ftp program or with File Manager. Then, when the board is installed and running, change it to 444.

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franwald

Thanks a lot

David

No problem.

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franwald

Thanks again Dave.
You should post this where newbies can read it. It is the answer to many problems I have read around the net on phpBB2 installation.
Frank

David

Well, I am going to work on writing a big "Welcome to Surpass" kind of manual thing, so I might put this in there.

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snide

David, in your manual, remember to direct users to the software author's website first for assistance. We are good, but we are no match for the author.

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