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cathy1027418

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On the Install page I got this message: "Host 'mdswin1' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server." My web host gave me OS Commerce and said they support it; what could be going on? Unless someone can tell me otherwise, I'll contact my web host but it doesn't appear that they have 24/7 help!

 

Additional questions that have come to my mind:

 

1) If I have a web host, does that mean I should check on the Install process Shared Server? Which would mean that persistent connections should be disabled for shared servers? Guess I'm not 100% sure what that means.

 

2) Database Name: Am I creating that name at the time I am going through the Installation process? I can make it up at that time?

 

3) Username: Database username (Per the instructions on Install: The username used to connect to the database server. An example username is 'mysql_10'.Note: Create and Drop permissions are required at this point of the installation procedure.

So what is Create and Drop permissions ... ? I don't see those as options.

 

4) Last question for now: I have a web site and a home page (index.html) and I want to there to be a link on my home page to this Catalog I'm hoping to create. Is this possible to do? What do I need to know?

 

Thanks for any help I can get.

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The first thing you need to do is create a database for OSC to connect to and use. If you are on a shared server you probably have access to a tool like php myadmin, or something similar. You just need to create a blank database, and assign a username and password for access to it. You can give it any name you want. Maybe you have done these things, but by reading your later comments it sounds like you may not have set up a database first.

 

1) Persistant connections should be set to off if you are on a shared host. Many hosts require that you don't use a persistant connection.

 

2) Database: Use the name that you gave the database when you first created it. On many shared servers the database name may be a combination of your login name and the name you gave the database (login_databasename).

 

3) Username: The username you set up to access the database when you created it. That user will have permission to create and drop tables in the database.

 

4) Just create an html link like this:

<a href="http://www.myoscsite.com/catalog">Click Here for Catalog</a>

The stuff inside the quotes needs to be changed to whatever url will get to your OSC install.

 

Hope that helps...

 

Jeff

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