Re: [cobalt-users] I give up

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on 6-30-02 2:21 PM, Jonathan Lee stated:

> I went and made the changes as well as a few I got from the "new
> installation" section of the forum on ocs's web site. Now I am getting
> a "unable to connect to database server" message. The changes that the forum
> exampe was to the following two areas:
> 
> // define our webserver variables
> // FS = Filesystem (physical)
> // WS = Webserver (virtual)
> define('HTTP_SERVER', 'localhost');
> define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'localhost');
> define('ENABLE_SSL', 0); // ssl server enable(1)/disable(0)
> define('DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT',$DOCUMENT_ROOT . '/');
> define('DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT', $DOCUMENT_ROOT . '/');
> define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/catalog/');
> define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');
> define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');
> define('DIR_WS_BOXES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'boxes/');
> define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');
> define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');
> define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');
> define('DIR_WS_PAYMENT_MODULES', DIR_WS_MODULES . 'payment/');
> define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');
>

This must be the actual place to place MySQL passwds and such
> // define our database connection
> define('DB_SERVER', 'localhost');
> define('DB_SERVER_USERNAME', 'root');
 define('DB_SERVER_PASSWORD', '');<<<<<<<Put your MySQL root password
here<<<<
define('DB_DATABASE', 'catalog');<<<This would be the name of the db. Is
there a schema dump??
> define('USE_PCONNECT',1);
> 
> The instructions I attempted to follow are located here:
> http://www.oscommerce.com/community.php/forum,1/action,read/i,33530/t,33530
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> John