help getting blog to work

[birdsall]

hi

im trying to get this SuperSimpleBlogScript to work on birdsall.pcriot.com . i created a database ... can someone tell me what the error is? Sorry for being ignorant.

Also if anyone knows where I could find a tutorial for getting a blog to work here that would help heaps.

thanks.

[gomarc]

Have you created a user for this database?
Did you ADD this user to the database?
Did you give the user proper privileges to access the database?

If not, go to cPanel -> Databases -> MySQL Databases to do so.

For the database host, use "localhost"

[leafypiggy]

In the file "sqlStrings.php"

change the variable containing the database server (or something similar) from 'chopin.x10hosting.com' to 'localhost' (sans quotes)

also, your user should have your username before it (ie birdsall_dbname)

and your username should have the same syntax (ie birdsall_username)

[gomarc]

OR, if you want to do it the easy way, you can install many blogs using the Softaculous Installer.

It does the whole thing for you, including the database thing.

Go to cPanel -> Software/Services -> Softaculous close to the bottom of your cPanel.

[birdsall]

thanks heaps guys

all 3 replies have helped!

[fretwizz]

thanks heaps guys

all 3 replies have helped!

I'd just point out that while using the auto installers does make things a lot easier it doesn't really teach you much about what's going on under the hood. I'm actually glad I didn't use an installer until after I figured out how things work... I probably never would have bothered;)