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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.

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.

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.