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General Support: _install.php troubles [coming from a first timer to MySQL stuff]

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    im having problems with the _install.php page. i dont really understand what i have to enter into the fields. it automatically comes up for the host as "localhost" so i assume there's a reason for that so i didnt change that. the rest i guessed.

    then it told me "Plogger could not connect to the MySQL host with the information you provided."

    i tried again later but making a database in the MySQL section of my account on freehostia.com and i named it "gallery" and it says the name of the database is "eriham4_gallery" when i go to log into the thing they have for databases.

    now this is all coming from someone who hasn't done much web stuff for awhile now and the last thing i installed was a news script that i had a little help with, and this was about 2-3 years ago. so im really lost and need to get this figured out by tonight because i've been trying to get this figured out all week and the forum hasnt helped cuz i dont know what you guys are talking about, from what i've searched.

    deadline's 12 tonight for me getting this done. the help would be appreciated

    -eric.
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    >comes up for the host as "localhost" so i assume there's a reason for that so i didnt change that.

    That's just the default. Sometimes it doesn't work and you'll want to change it. Dreamhost, for instance, doesn't work with localhost. You have to use mysql.somedomain.com.

    Probably, there's some specific hostname that freehostia requires you use. That should be listed in freehostia's config pages.
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    i got it working. i contacted the host and they pointed me in the right direction

    thanks for the help though!

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