Re: [Post-nuke-users] Newbie installation problems

[John C. <ad...@di...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Brooks" <gb...@bl...>
To: <pos...@li...>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 2:55 PM
Subject: [Post-nuke-users] Newbie installation problems


> Hello, all... I'm having trouble installing (or rather, with the
> post-install set-up) of Postnuke on a W2k box.
> 
> The setup: Apache/PHP/Perl/MySQL installed per the NuSphere installer
> (NOT Apache 2.0)
> 
> The problems: 
> 
> 1.) Script doesn't want to create the database in MySQL, although if I
> create an empty DB manually, the install script creates all the
> necessary table.

Some SQL setups do not allow this.

> 
> 2.) Don't know what to put in for "DB host" during the installer script.

Have you tried "localhost"?

> 
> 3.) Following install, any attempt to get to admin.php or index.php
> results in "unable to connect to select database." The path I'm using is
> http://localhost/mutant_64/html/admin.php (goofy path, I know, but I
> haven't changed the apache config file to associate the directory with a
> specific domain ... this was meant as more of a test-bed situation.)

That's because you cannot connect to the DB.

> 
> Any help much appreciated ... honestly, I thought I knew my way around
> MySQL, but this has me stumped.
> 
> Regards,
> Greg Brooks