[Bad Karma[CORE]]

Originally Posted by Felldoh

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Originally Posted by Felldoh

Also. I got past that first part of the installation by changing the permissions again and got to the second part. But now, It's saying "Access denied for user '[MySQL username]'@'localhost' (using password: YES)" when I have all my MySQL information typed in.

What did you put as mysql servername?

[jameswx09]

Smf is the forum software that works best with 000webhost. When I install it I don't need to chmod anything, just enter in the correct info and it'll work good.

[Felldoh]

Originally Posted by Bad Karma[CORE]

What did you put as mysql servername?

I used server name 'localhost'

Should it be something different?

[Bad Karma[CORE]]

yes, that´s why i asked
Usually your mysql server is something like mysql*.000webhost.com where * is a number. Which server you are on is shown when you click the MySQL option in your control panel. Along with the list of databases you will be shown which server to use for setting up your forum

[Flix]

First loginto Cpanel and create the MySql DB, and the DB USER, take note of the DBname, DBusername ,and DBpassword.DBname will be something like
DBname: yourusername_Whatyoupick
DB username: yourusername_Whatyoupick
DBpassword Whatyoupick



The MySQL server should be mysql### not LOCALHOST, look in your CPanel for correct setting, mysql004.000webhost.com for example (Look in your Cpanel for YOUR proper setting) but LOCALHOST will NOT work

also it defaults to something like home/yourusername/public_html/whatever ,
use /whatever instead, other than that SMF will in most cases fix permissions itself.

ie- If you uploaded all the files to say public_html/SMF
then the local install dir would be (in the SMF installer)
/SMF

not home/yourusername/public_html/SMF like it defaults too.


Change those 2 things, and SMF will prolly fix its file permissions ect itself. I have installed it many times on several hosts, just did a mnual install here, so if you need more help about setting just ask, but those are the things I noted.

LOCALHOST isn't right, use the mysql###.000webhost listed in your Cpanel

your MySql Username and DB name are prefixed with your 000webhostusername_WHATEVERYOURPICK

and the default install path SMF detects is NOT correct, ignore your home/username/public_html and use just the /path
( Say I uploaded the smf to my new site in a directory called hotforums (ie /home/myusername/public_html/hotforums) then /hotforums is the correct path, not /home/myusername/public_html/hotforums

[FnCool]

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