Okay Im installing Vbulletin 3.5 and I am having trouble getting past step #2. I get the following error message when installing: Step 2) Connect to the database Attempting to attach to database Connect failed: unexpected error from the database. Error number: 1044 Error description: Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'forum' Please ensure that the database and server is correctly configured and try again. I would be happy to pay someone via paypal $20 if they can fix this 'probably' simple problem so I can continue onto step #3. I believe its a problem with typing in the database names/ passwords in the config.php file and MYSQL database. If interstead please pm me if you can work on this tonight or tomorrow. Thanks! The config.php is below: || # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # || // ****** DATABASE TYPE ****** // This is the type of the database server on which your vBulletin database will be located. // Valid options are mysql and mysqli. Try to use mysqli if you are using PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1+ $config['Database']['dbtype'] = 'mysql'; // ****** DATABASE NAME ****** // This is the name of the database where your vBulletin will be located. // This must be created by your webhost. $config['Database']['dbname'] = 'forum'; // ****** TABLE PREFIX ****** // Prefix that your vBulletin tables have in the database. $config['Database']['tableprefix'] = ''; // ****** TECHNICAL EMAIL ADDRESS ****** // If any database errors occur, they will be emailed to the address specified here. // Leave this blank to not send any emails when there is a database error. $config['Database']['technicalemail'] = 'dbmaster@example.com'; // ****** MASTER DATABASE SERVER NAME AND PORT ****** // This is the hostname or IP address and port of the database server. // If you are unsure of what to put here, leave the default values. $config['MasterServer']['servername'] = 'localhost'; $config['MasterServer']['port'] = 3306; // ****** MASTER DATABASE USERNAME & PASSWORD ****** // This is the username and password you use to access MySQL. // These must be obtained through your webhost. $config['MasterServer']['username'] = 'root'; $config['MasterServer']['password'] = ''; // ****** MASTER DATABASE PERSISTENT CONNECTIONS ****** // This option allows you to turn persistent connections to MySQL on or off. // The difference in performance is negligible for all but the largest boards. // If you are unsure what this should be, leave it off. (0 = off; 1 = on) $config['MasterServer']['usepconnect'] = 0; // ****** SLAVE DATABASE CONFIGURATION ****** // If you have multiple database backends, this is the information for your slave // server. If you are not 100% sure you need to fill in this information, // do not change any of the values here. $config['SlaveServer']['servername'] = ''; $config['SlaveServer']['port'] = 3306; $config['SlaveServer']['username'] = ''; $config['SlaveServer']['password'] = ''; $config['SlaveServer']['usepconnect'] = 0; // ****** PATH TO ADMIN & MODERATOR CONTROL PANELS ****** // This setting allows you to change the name of the folders that the admin and // moderator control panels reside in. You may wish to do this for security purposes. // Please note that if you change the name of the directory here, you will still need // to manually change the name of the directory on the server. $config['Misc']['admincpdir'] = 'admincp'; $config['Misc']['modcpdir'] = 'modcp'; // Prefix that all vBulletin cookies will have // Keep this short and only use numbers and letters, i.e. 1-9 and a-Z $config['Misc']['cookieprefix'] = 'bb'; // ******** FULL PATH TO FORUMS DIRECTORY ****** // On a few systems it may be necessary to input the full path to your forums directory // for vBulletin to function normally. You can ignore this setting unless vBulletin // tells you to fill this in. Do not include a trailing slash! // Example Unix: // $config['Misc']['forumpath'] = '/home/users/public_html/forums'; // Example Win32: // $config['Misc']['forumpath'] = 'c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\vb3'; $config['Misc']['forumpath'] = ''; // ****** USERS WITH ADMIN LOG VIEWING PERMISSIONS ****** // The users specified here will be allowed to view the admin log in the control panel. // Users must be specified by *ID number* here. To obtain a user's ID number, // view their profile via the control panel. If this is a new installation, leave // the first user created will have a user ID of 1. Seperate each userid with a comma. $config['SpecialUsers']['canviewadminlog'] = '1'; // ****** USERS WITH ADMIN LOG PRUNING PERMISSIONS ****** // The users specified here will be allowed to remove ("prune") entries from the admin // log. See the above entry for more information on the format. $config['SpecialUsers']['canpruneadminlog'] = '1'; // ****** USERS WITH QUERY RUNNING PERMISSIONS ****** // The users specified here will be allowed to run queries from the control panel. // See the above entries for more information on the format. // Please note that the ability to run queries is quite powerful. You may wish // to remove all user IDs from this list for security reasons. $config['SpecialUsers']['canrunqueries'] = ''; // ****** UNDELETABLE / UNALTERABLE USERS ****** // The users specified here will not be deletable or alterable from the control panel by any users. // To specify more than one user, separate userids with commas. $config['SpecialUsers']['undeletableusers'] = ''; // ****** SUPER ADMINISTRATORS ****** // The users specified below will have permission to access the administrator permissions // page, which controls the permissions of other administrators $config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'] = '1'; // ****** The following options are only needed in special cases ****** // ****** MySQLI OPTIONS ***** // PHP can be instructed to set connection paramaters by reading from the // file named in 'ini_file'. Please use a full path to the file. // Used to set the connection's default character set // Example: // $config['Mysqli']['ini_file'] = 'c:\program files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\my.ini'; $config['Mysqli']['ini_file'] = ''; // Optionally with Mysql 4.1.13+ or 5.1.10+ and PHP 5.1.0+ we can set the connection's charset // after completing the database connection. // $config['Mysqli']['charset'] = 'utf8'; /*======================================================================*\
I believe you need to go under cPanel > MySQL Databases. And under Users, add a 'root' user with no password(as entered in your config.php). Then somewhere above Users, you should see 2 comboboxes, 'User' and 'Db'. Under 'User', select your newly create 'root' and under 'Db', select your 'forum' database. Click 'Add User to Db'. Hope that works.