How do i install vbulliten to m website?

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gotseven

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I figured there would be a sticky about this topic. But i'm having trouble installing vbulliten. I've created a mySQL on my host server and i have also opened up config.php and set all the settings accordingly and then I uploaded the whole "upload this" folder to my server.

But how do i execute the install.php? Through what program? I tried going to ftp.example.com/forum/install/install.php and nothing happens it seems. Even with windows explorer. When i do it with Internet Explorer it just sits there and says "connecting" for about 10 minutes and times out.. what gives?
 
http : // yourdomain.com/forum/install/install.php not ftp:// nothing happened because it was trying to incorrectly create an ftp connection.
 
well i finally got things going after much trial and error. I got the install.php to run but now on the 3rd step i get this error message:

Step 2) Connect to the database

Attempting to attach to database

Connect failed: unexpected error from the database.

Error number: 1044

Error description: Cannot use database forum

Please ensure that the database and server is correctly configured and try again.
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I googled this error and it seems to be something to do with the username and password in some cases where it says "Accesss Denied". But my error message does'nt say that. I've went over the config.php a thousand times and even redownloaded a fresh config.php to make sure I had the settings just right. I have my server name, username, and password and port number. All of them are correct.

I'm thinking its a problem on godaddy.com's side.. I have tried this on both of my sql database's on godaddy.com

One of them is version 4.1 and the other is 5.0. I still get that same error message on both of there installs.

Can anyone help?? Know anything about Error 1044?

Much Thanks
 
i never heard of the error but im on godaddy and it works fine. ive installed it heaps of times now

have you tried reupload the files and double check folder permissions?
 
Folder permissions? where do i find those? right click them while there on my computer before uploading? Here is my config.php with the username and password blurred out of course haha.. see if you can see anything immediately wrong. Thanks

Also.. What version of mysql did you use on godaddy? did you just create a regular database and set ur username and password and thats it?? or is there more configuration that I have to do besides that on the "mysql godaddy side"

Thanks
 
Code: 
$config['MasterServer']['servername'] = '97.74.31.5';

replace this with....


Code: 
$config['MasterServer']['servername'] = 'localhost';
 
k_hunter said:
Code: 
$config['MasterServer']['servername'] = '97.74.31.5';

replace this with....


Code: 
$config['MasterServer']['servername'] = 'localhost';
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I did exactly what you told me and I get this error again.

error.jpg


I really dont know what to do now. First my problem was i was on a windows server. So i had godaddy migrate to a linux server. Then i have these errors. I'm starting to think it's on godaddy's side. to the person that has a godaddy hosting account. Which version of mysql do you have? 4.1 or 5.0? and did you have to change any other options in the default mysql? like create tables or something?

Here's basicly what i have done.

Went to my hosting account and created my first MySQL 4.1 with direct access option. Then I tried to upload the config.php and still a no go.

So i created another MySQL, this time version 5.0 without direct access.
I'm taking into account the server names and ip's everytime i try each server in the config.php.

What could i call and ask godaddy to do?

Thanks again for all your help so far. But the "localhost" option is giving me the error above.
 
I got it working. I had the ip address from the other mysql. But localhost would not work. I had to manually put in the ip of the mysql server to get it through. Thanks for all your help. Now i'm off to setting it up.
 
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