[Mediawiki-l] installation/database problem

[Damien Hull]

It works!

Turns out it was a mistake on my part. The company hosting my website 
was using MySQL 4. They added MySQL 5 a few weeks ago. To use a MySQL 5 
database you need to set the "host" option to *localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock.

*Now I can copy some config settings from my working MediaWiki site. 
Once that's done the real work begins. I need to fill the Wiki with some 
information.

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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