Help!

I am trying to configure a phpBB discussion board using a remote mysql database (freesql.org). I cannot seem to connect, it gives me the error:

Error, I could not connect to the database at www.freesql.org. Using username myusername and password mypass

Does anyone have any experience with this and could give me a hand.?


Thanks

Nick :rolleyes:

I install it several times in diferent server.
Contact me at support@downtownhost.com

Hello

If you can not sove the problem, you'd rather go to their own support forum.

I have asked several questions there and received the answer very soon.

Regards,
Mac

Problem with it to kept getting error messages I scraped it and got XMB not one problem setting it up :)

Coolblu, this is generally a problem with the 'host' setting. It seems that you have instructed the software to connect to the host 'www.yourdomain.com' - try changing that to 'localhost'. Also, verify the name of your database. Often, it will be in the format domain_com or user_databasename. Better than giving up on something just because you get errors when trying to set it up.

If I understand correctly, You are connecting to a database on a different server than the one that the php files are hosted on. In which case, Annette's advice would not work. Knowing Annette's technical expertise, I would say she just needs a serious nap. :) I would put the IP address in the hostname field instead of a name and try that. Along with verify the database name, username, and password.

This is your brain on waaay too little sleep.

Now that I've had a little nap, though:

For remote access to databases, especially on linux systems, the default connection type is localhost only - which means that you may need the host of the remote database to set up access to that database from whatever IP address(es) you'll be connecting from. It's akin to myODBC setups.