Can't connect to mySQL server

[Guest]

Hey everybody... when im trying to install OSCommerce and connect to my database i get this error:

 

Access denied for user: '[email protected]' (Using password: YES)

 

i just created the database and password 30 minutes ago... im sure I'm using the right data as well. Could it be the database has to be in a specific location? Also tried logging into my server with the main admin password and username to see if it would automatically create a new database, but no luck.

 

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

[Guest]

hehe. Never mind i just figured it out. I had to use "localhost" instead of my web address.

 

They need to make that more clear!

 

Thanks anyways guys.

[FIMBLE]

Hi,

you may need to add your cpanel login username and an underscore to your database and username but not your pass word like

 

database name: lunarpage_store

 

username: lunarpage_yourusername

 

password: just your password

 

- Nic

[Guest]

From what I remember, LP actually does it a bit differently. If your username is someuser, and you create a db name named test, with a database user of dbadminuser, you get:

db name: someuser_test

db username: someuser_dbadminuser

 

It also may be that your username/db name get truncated by LP's control panel.

 

-jared

[Guest]

hi guys, thanks for all the help!!! Just to clear it up though, for some reason, when it asks for the server that contains the database, i had to put the words "localhost"...

not my website address...

 

that worked!

 

Thanks again though.

[ozcsys]

hi guys, thanks for all the help!!! Just to clear it up though, for some reason, when it asks for the server that contains the database, i had to put the words "localhost"...

not my website address...

 

that worked!

 

Thanks again though.

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That is normal in most all cases localhost is what you will use.