On Wednesday 13 June 2007 17:16:41 Scott Berry wrote: > Hello there, > > Has anyone installed Xoops cms on a Fedora server? I am having problems > with it connecting to the mysql database. Xoops is written in php so I > think I might also be missing a php package which talks to the mysql > server. I looked under php for any packages which might work but I seemed > to come up open handed because I am uncertain what to install. Can some > one give me some advice? Here is the error I get from xoops when I try to > install it. > > This page cannot be displayed due to an internal error. > > You can provide the following information to the administrators of this > site to help them solve the problem: > > Error: Unable to connect to database > > Scott I guess if you configured the credentials for Xoops to access the mysql, there's a good way to try that, use the credentials xoops is suppose to use to connect to, I mean: mysql -D xoops_database -u xoops_user -p xoops_password And see what happen, does that work? -- Manuel Arostegui Ramirez. Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues.
