Re-install!

[Viskar]

OK So I'm re-installing my forums after a year of playing around. And I'm having the same probablem I had last time. only I can't remember how I fixed it. I'm at the install screen when you put 'Database name" and such. Well I went into MySQL made a database for forums called "forum" And MySQL is in a folder called db2

Database Server Hostname / DSN:
Your Database Name: forum
Database Username: *****
Database Password: *****
Prefix for tables in database:

didn't work

Database Server Hostname / DSN:
Your Database Name: db2
Database Username: *******
Database Password: *******
Prefix for tables in database:

didn't work I keep getting "Can't connect to database" any help would be grateful!

[IP-Dope]

Hi,

Your problem could be the DSN setting. You havent filled in anything at all, so the install script has no idea which server it should connect to.
If the mysql database is running on the same server as your web server, try either "localhost" or "127.0.0.1", at least one of them should work. If the server is running on a different server and you have no knowledge of it's ip address, contact your webhost and ask them for the server IP.

Hope this helps.

[Edit: typo]

[Viskar]

It's on same server. I have the MySQL version set up right. I pointed it to 'forumdb" (sql I made for it) tried it with DSN as 127.0.0.1 and localhost, everything

I keep getting " phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database " tried searching but for some reason all the searches bring up a white screen?