[Mediawiki-l] installation/database problem

[Tim Ware]

It's all working now, and I'm not sure what happened. I deleted the  
LocalSettings.php and went through the config drill again and all was  
well. Sorry for the alarm, and thanks for the help!

And, yes, I am hosted at Dreamhost and didn't know about the 1-click  
upgrade. Oh well, next time....

Tim

On Nov 27, 2006, at 9:54 PM, Roger Chrisman wrote:

> Damien Hull wrote:
>> I'm trying to install mediawiki version 1.8.2. I don't have root
>> access to MySQL ( not my server ). I created a database using the web
>> tools ( I think it's C panel ). When I try to install mediawiki it
>> only uses the user name in the "root" section. When I put in the
>> master user name and password the the hosting company gave me I get
>> the following error message.
>>
>>     Error selecting database digital_wikidb: 1044 Access denied for
>> user
>>
>> What's going on here and how do I fix this?
>>
>> I have installed mediawiki on my own server and ran into the same
>> problem. It only worked if I used the root account for mysql. Using a
>> user of the database would not work.
>
> You may need to tell it
> * the right hostname -- mysql.domainname.com or whatever mysql  
> hostname
> your db is on.
> * the right mysql db username (and provide that db username's  
> password)
> * the right db name, whatever.sql
>
> I'm just guessing. I don't use C-panel.
> Roger :-)
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