hello, all of you please help me. i reached to 4 step of joomla installtion, but can't cross 4. step (database) what is the problem, i don't know. please tell me what should i do. It shows an error, could not connect mysql database. please help me if somebody can. I am trying it since 2 weeks, but no solution found. thanks in advance.
make sure you put the correct database localhost and username and database name. Dpeending on your hosting provider you may have different ones. Example: godaddy localhost: mysql.hostnam | username: name | database name: name BUT normal cpanel localhost: localhost | username: loginname_name | database name: loginname_name you may also wish to post here http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=15 or if you feel all is correct, go for joomla support itself.
thanks, could you please tell me. is there any need to assign any ODBC connection for mysql. as we do for access or sql server.
Sounds like you are having a problem specifying the mysql hostname. Are you locally hosted or have you uploaded joomla to a webhost? Have you created a database for the joomla installation? Joomla doesn't create the database itself so you will need to have created the empty db on your mysql server prior to installation. The real answer is it depends on where your installing Joomla and how much of the prerequisite work you have done.
i perform every task needed before installation, but still not works. i think, there is some problem with my host. I also contact them, but they say everthing is right. and gave a ip address and said use this as host name. can a no. someting like "69.50.148.204" can be used instead of host name.
if the ip is the actual address of the mysql server and the database you have specified in present on that system then you can use that. Typically in a secure environment you wouldn't be using routable ip's to connect to the database server.