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I am trying to get my website moved to hosting company Ipowerweb.com, but the database server name is nowhere to be found. I have contacted them and they seem to give a hard time to get it. Can someone help me please. This is the message i get
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My account at Ipower
allowed me to look at the MySql Databases viwth MySqlAdmin. This was with the Cpanel interface.
You (and of course Ipower) are the only ones who can definitively say what the Database Name is.
One thing you could look at is the settings in your "sites/default/settings.php" file
The variable for the Database are:
$db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename';
$db_prefix = '';
On my first install I got confused by the purpose of these two variables. $db_prefix is in actuality a prefix that is prepended to all the tables in the DB. It is not prepended to the DB name itself. If you named your DB "misiones_drpa473" but have only entered drupa473 in the $db_url variable and are hoping that the $db_prefix variable "misiones_" will somehow be included than that could be your problem. The $db_url variable must contain the complete DB name.
As far as the database Server name goes. I would assume it is "localhost," that's what my IpowerWeb site had.
Thanks for your answer!
The database server was really localhost, i was thinking some sort of 101.ipowerweb.com or so.
my problem was with the prefixes, thanks for clearing that out for me. It is working now.
Jose