Joomla! Installation Problem

CMS & WordPress
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I see that this board is largely for Wordpress users but that stinking Joomla! forum always screws up and I can’t login.

So I am trying to install Joomla into a folder within an existing website which will be moved to its own domain later on. I have done this before, except I host with Bluehost which has a Joomla! installation button right in the cPanel. The web host that I am creating this website on does not, so I was trying to manually install Joomla! for the first time, following these instructions - http://help.joomla.org/content/view/1944/302/

I did everything as instructed but when I try to visit the site @ www.selectyourtickets.com/Giobean I get this message “Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL”

I changed the configuration.php file to the following:

var $dbtype = 'mysql';					// Normally mysql
var $host = 'localhost';				// This is normally set to localhost
var $user = 'selectyo_giobean';							// MySQL username
var $password = 'xxxxxxx';						// MySQL password
var $db = 'selectyo_giobean';							// MySQL database name
var $dbprefix = 'jos_';

Which should be all correct, unless there’s something that i don’t know about? I created the user and databases called giobean, and selectyo is the prefix that was put before them, I don’t know the technical term for it but it is the username when I sign in to the cPanel. Does anyone have any suggestions? I’m desperate here… Thanks!

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There’s any number of things that could be the cause. The info you supplied all looks correct, so it may not have anything to do with your config settings. Just a few things to think about …

  1. Not all hosting companies use “localhost” as the mysql host, so you might just want to double-check that with your hosting provider.

  2. When you created your mysql username and password … did you assign that username to the database you’re using? And did you then assign all permissions for that database to that user? These are a couple of routine steps that can sometimes be easy to forget.

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Thanks for the reply. I did make sure to assign the user to the db, and assigned all privileges. I am just going to be creating the site in a folder on my own domain where I can install Joomla! with no problem. And hopefully when the new site owner gets a domain I wont have these problems setting the website up there!

4

You can use the following tutorial “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVJaEO5pH3I&feature=related”

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My guess is the “host” value is wrong. Not that I’ve dealt with that many, but every one has always been different than what I expected it to be.

Double check in the “database” section of your admin panel and/or the site’s support wiki. It’s usually rather obscure and not so easy to find.