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Posted: **Thu May 03, 2007 11:03 am**

Hi,

I moved my site to a different server, and now I get a 'Database Connection Failed'.

old server:
PHP version 5.1.6
MySQL version 5.0.27-standard-log

new server:
PHP version 4.4.6
MySQL version 4.1.21-standard-log

DB and tables are all made (dumped sql and imported it) and acessable through ssh mysql -u etc. , and with this script that I can run from the homedirectory.

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<?php
include('config.php');

$db=mysql_connect ($config['db_hostname'], $config['db_username'], $config['db_password']) 
or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ($config['db_name']);
print 'no problems';

?>

So everything in config.php is right as well. It must be an CMSMS issue. Unfortunatly it does not give me any clues, also not when I turn on debugging in config.php.

Any suggestions?

ps. what is this variable in config.php for?: $config['dbms'] = 'mysqli';

Posted: **Thu May 03, 2007 11:14 am**

Did you check the paths as well in the config.php. Did you install CMSMS on the new server in the same directory as on the original server?

Ronny

Posted: **Thu May 03, 2007 11:27 am**

I changed the paths yes.
And now I double-checked them

But what would that have to do with the DB access?

Posted: **Thu May 03, 2007 11:30 am**

change mysqli to mysql

mysqli is a never mysql connection type and not supported everywhere

hope this helps

Posted: **Thu May 03, 2007 2:06 pm**

Thank you tsw. That did it!

I was wondering what that variable was for....

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