Will Coppermine work with my setup?

[patrickb]

Hi i'm having trouble trying to get an automated gallery to work for my portfolio site.

First question, I read that coppermine needs an Mysql database, and I don;t want to buy one through my webhosting, would it be okay to get a free one - http://www.freesql.org/  and use this with coppermine? As you can probably tell i'm very new to this, but does it matter if I get a free mysql database from there?

So if I am able to use this, how would I go about setting up coppermine with the free mysql database? I just have the following info from registering - www.freesql.org, port number and user name...

Apparently the site is on IIS6, PHP v4.3.2 I think.

If I can't use coppermine would it be possible to use PHPnuke?

any help would be appreciated

[Nibbler]

You can use coppermine with a remote database. When you install set the server name to freesql.org instead of localhost and use the details they give you. You can ignore the port 3306 as it the default anyway.

[vuud]

You can use coppermine with a remote database. When you install set the server name to freesql.org instead of localhost and use the details they give you. You can ignore the port 3306 as it the default anyway.

Assuming your hosting service allows connections of those types to be established to sources outside of the network.  It's definately worth a try, but I can see some greed minded company blocking it.  If you control the mysql setup you could always move to another port.