[solved] connecting to database

[Tracy]

I continually have problems connecting to the database after installing and am not sure why. I have just installed the latest. Set up my new database with user and password, write it down to ensure no mistakes and have only encountered 1 host that I need to use something other than localhost. I guess my question is, do I need to put in a prefix infront of either the database name, username or password? For example the account is civeh and my username is tracy. So do I type in civeh_cms and civeh_tracy etc? I have done it all ways with no luck and even created a brandnew database to start over with no luck. Thankyou in advance for any help in this matter.

[scelle]

If you can access your hosting account's control panel (I guess it is cPanel), go to MySQL Databases and check what Databases and Users you have created. Also, make sure you check your MySQL server address and database port. This can be done via phpMyAdmin.

It usually is "localhost" with the port number 3306, but not always.

By the way, you haven't said what error message is CMSMS reporting and in what step of installation/exploitation?

[Tracy]

thankyou for your reply. It is version 1.10.3. I have gotten to step 5 and the error message just says Could not connect to the database. Verify that username and password are correct, and that the user has access to the given database

[Tracy]

got it, I looked back at my notes, the username and the database need to be preceided by the account name _. So civeh_tracy etc.