hosted server-can't connect to db securely

[catlady]

my admin and catalog config.php database connection settings (the six lines under "// define our database connection" ) are identical;

define('DB_SERVER', 'localhost');

 

apparenty I am connecting to the database fine to display catalog info., but when I try to check out I get a message that I cannot connect to the database, "Access denied for user".

 

('ENABLE_SSL', true);

('ENABLE_SSL_CATALOG', 'false');

 

I am on a shared hosting situation and the secure info is:

https://acctname.secure-hosting-url.net

 

I've tried changing lots of things; but I'm confused about where/when each configuration file is used, some of them seem to have the same settings.

 

Any ideas what I should try to change?