[SOLVED] Installation hung up on step 5 (databse connection)

[grinn]

I am trying to install CMS Made Simple 1.8.2 on a portable (USB) Uniform Server running Apache/2.2.16 (Win32) PHP/5.3.3 MySQL5 in my Vista PC.

The CMSMS files were extracted to a subfolder of www.

Noobie to PHP, mySQL...

Following the steps on the video tutorial, I keep getting stuck in step 5.  The error says, "Could not connect to the database.   Verify username..."

I have already tried and done the following:
-  Database permissions are set and I have even added my windows login username.
-  Copied .htaccess to www/cmsms
-  Copied config.php to www
-  (Looking at both config.php files, both are blank)
-  Verified and tried all possible users and respective passwords
-  Verified that windows firewall allows port 3306
-  Googled and found similar situations but no luck for me so far

I would appreciate any help as to what I am doing wrong or missing.  I feel it's so close yet very elusive...

Thanks.

[JohnnyB]

config.php will be empty until the installation completes.
Verify that mysql or a comparable database is installed and set up correctly. 
Are you using a Wampserver.com or a similar wamp package? If so, you should be able to find tutorials, etc. to help get the server, esp. mysql set up and able to be accessed.

[grinn]

Thanks, mww!

Finally got it to install.  I don't know what did the trick but I entered these:
host : 127.0.0.1
user : (my system login)
password : (MySQL password)
port : 3306

BTW, Uniform Server is a WAMP package.

Again, many thanks -- appreciate the response.