By JohnOB on

Greetings, all. I have downloaded the Amazon module and find that my host (bluehost) server translates amazon_items.sql to myuserid_amazonitems.sql. As a result, drupal does not find necessary links.

My server advises that the only solutoin is that I edit the script to recognize the myuserid_amazonitems string. I have not a clue hot to do this.

Can anyone help with some step by step instruction?

Thanks in advance - what a great community this is. Hopeto be able to offer insights and expertise in the future as mine grows (yep...bit of a learning curve!).

CHeers,
John

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scriptnews commented

Hi John, even when I am not on Bluehost, my sites are located on a similar system with CPanel. Here is what I think:

1) the way MySQL databases are named is this

Nameof User or UserID
plus underscore
plus name of pretended database.

You should have page where Youy name Your new database, maybe You want to name it drupal1;

The full name of that database would then be

UserID_drupal1

This would be the name to use in Your config or settings.php of Drupal.

This basic setting then decides on the use of tables needed for what ever task drupal needs to accomplish. So far this basics.

What I see in Your task is a different issue.
You also have an admin interface for MySQL, I guess.
This is where You take the content of the file ending in .sql
and insert it into the database ... and You should be done.

The Amazon-Module will then look up and use the database tables installed by the step mentioned before.

O yes and please activate the module in Drupals module administration

Good Luck.

Roland
CentroAmerica.TV