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[evedude]

I've looked so many places now, and i can't find a solution to this problem...

During installation, i hang at "Testing database connection". This happens on both the 2.2 and 3.0 versions.

I have given 777 rights to both configure.php files, and the entire install dir.

I have my hostings at one.com, and i have next to none power over hostingserver configuration.

I have used the right database name, and password, i checked and rechecked and checked again.

In my time i've installed several CMS, and PhpBBS systems, so i know a little bit about installing online systems, but when it comes down to the actual PHP coding, i'm totally lost.

I hope someone can help me with this, cause im pretty much in the dark now.

[Jan Zonjee]

evedude, on 21 November 2009, 11:05, said:

I've looked so many places now, and i can't find a solution to this problem...

During installation, i hang at "Testing database connection". This happens on both the 2.2 and 3.0 versions.

How about doing this manually? All the install procedure does is running catalog/install/oscommerce.sql after you have uploaded all the files already and changing the two configure.php files. Both things can be done manually.

[evedude]

Thanky You Jan for your reply, the thing is.... I'm a Git at all that linux/sql/php thing, so when you say manually, I don't know enough to understand what you mean..

R U talking about going into the database admin tool "phpadmin" and do something ?

[Jan Zonjee]

evedude, on 21 November 2009, 13:55, said:

R U talking about going into the database admin tool "phpadmin" and do something ?

Yep. As far as I can remember you can use phpMyAdmin to upload that sql file and then have phpMyAdmin "execute" it. In the addon section there is a contribution to remove all the example products and categories as far as I remember before adding your own.

[evedude]

TY very much for you time Jan, i had hoped that i didn't need to go into too much manual stuff.

Eventhough it seems to be the only way, does anyone actually know why this is a problem. I have come across it several times on the net, but never a solution.