I am kind of afraid to ask this after reading this thread
http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=13353.0
but I'm going to ask anyway.
I have a free trial account at 1 & 1 and installed phpBB2 and had no troubles. Everything is going well and I'm having a ball customizing my own style. Now I am ready to set-up Coppermine, but am stuck on the install page re the mySQL info. (You can see a screenshot of the page in the first post of the thread at the above URL.)
I can't for the life of me rememeber how I got by this when installing the phpBB board, and I did call 1 & 1, but their recording says phone support is not offered for the trial accounts. >:( The trial account is my way of testing whether I can successfully run both phpBB and Coppermine before becoming a paying customer, so I find that really annoying. If they offered support for trial customers, more of them would probably become paying customers! Ugh.
Anyway, if anyone is familiar with 1 & 1 and could help me out, I would really appreciate it.
col
I wanted to add - I was thinking that maybe the info I need is stored somewhere in one of my phpBB files, but don't know where to look for it, although i have been trying.
Col
In the config.php file for phpBB2, I found this info
("x" substituted for actual characters):
dbhost: xxxx.net
dbname: xxxxxxxx
dbuser: xxxxxxxx
dbpassword: xxxxxxxx
table prefix: phpbb_
Can I use that same info (with differnt table prefix) for the Coppermine install or will that overwrite my phpBB2 data?
Thanks,
Col
Yes, you can use the same database information. Coppermine uses a different table prefix (cpg132_), so you won't overwrite any tables.
Bless you, Kegobeer, for your quick reply! Going to use that same info then and keep my fingers crossed.
Col
dbhost: xxxx.net
dbname: xxxxxxxx
dbuser: xxxxxxxx
As shown in my phpBB2 config file, all those start with "db".
If I enter the info with the db at the beginning as shown for name and user, and use the default "localhost", I get this error message:
MySQL error was : Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
If I enter the info with the db at the begining and use the specified hostname, I get this error message:
MySQL error was : Unknown MySQL Server Host 'dbxxxxxx.net' (1)
So then I tried going back to "locahost" and not including the "db" at the beginning of name & password, and get this error message again:
MySQL error was : Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
Is there another combination I am missing to try?
Col
:)
I used the db before the name & user, and used the specific host name rather than the the default "localhost" and it worked. Don't know why it didn't work the first few times i tried that combo, but oh well, I'm there now.
Col