Phpbb from scratch

[bluestrobe]

So I have my own web server at home running Win2K Server. I currently host my website using Apache 2.0.55 and PHP 4.4.3. At the recommendation of other board members here, I installed MySQL 5.0 and mysql query browser. I'm pretty experienced with phpbb and have set them up on other hosts before. However, I'm new to MySQL and only dabbled in databases a little with MS Access (I know, very little in similarity). Now both are installed, what would be the next step in creating a database and using it for a phpbb board? I played with the features a bit but it seems they are tailored to pre-installed databases which I have none. Any good online reading on this subject? Did I do something wrong from the beginning? Thanks!

 

[Homerboy]

phpbb creates all the tables for you...its not very hard... very idiot proof so not the best "learning" device there is

RTM

 

[bluestrobe]

I thought when phpbb asked for a name and pw to the database, it was asking for a preconfigured one. Didn't know it is creating one from scratch.

Anyways, this is what i get right now. MySQL is running as a service so shes going.


phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database

 

[kamper]

How are you experienced with setting up phpbb if you've never played with more than access? Anyway, obviously you have to create a user account for the forum and create a database that that user account has access to, if you haven't already. I imagine the gui tools would make that fairly easy to figure out or you could just read the documentation at mysql.com.

If that's not the issue, check how phpbb is connecting to mysql and how mysql is accepting connections. I believe that on windows, mysql can do named pipes or tcp sockets and I don't remember which is enabled by default (although you'd think tcp would be). I imagine php uses tcp as well, but it doesn't hurt to verify.

 

[bluestrobe]

Originally posted by: kamper
How are you experienced with setting up phpbb if you've never played with more than access? Anyway, obviously you have to create a user account for the forum and create a database that that user account has access to, if you haven't already. I imagine the gui tools would make that fairly easy to figure out or you could just read the documentation.

I messed with databases on Access and on a seperate occasion I setup a phpbb board from the ground up on a paid host. The host told me what the database information was and I put it in, simple stuff. This is the first time I played with MySQL so I'm learning with it.