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 ERROR
- CANNOT CONNECT TO MYSQL DATABASE |
One of
the most common errors when working with MySQL databases is when you receive the
'cannot connect to database' error. Before you submit a ticket check to ensure you
have done the following:
For the server name you should put in:
localhost
(If the database is on the same server as the site requesting the database).
Another couple of items to check is to make sure you have created a user which
is assigned to the database (see here). To access a database you need to create a user
which has permission to access the database. If you have not done this you
cannot connect to the database.
Next, check to make sure that you have the user name correct in your script as
well as the database name. The way the server works is that it prefixs the login
of the account to the beginning of every database user and database. It does
this so there is not a conflict between databases of the same name across the
server. So if your login for the account is "fred" and you created a
database named "flintstone" the official name of the database is:
fred_flintstone
You would need to reference the database exactly like this in your scripts or
config files.
The same goes for a user. If the database user is "wilma" then in the
config file you would list the user as:
fred_wilma
These are the most common errors.
Please
click here for full step-by-step instructions
on how to setup a database and user.
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