I'm hanging my head in shame and begging forgiveness for requesting help for such a trivial issue. However, one man's simplicity is another's quandary.

I have successfully upgraded to Drupal 6.13 from 5.18 to the point of configuring the database in the "update.php" screen.

I HAVE APPARENTLY FORGOTTEN MY DB USERNAME AND PASSWORD. (again, hanging head in shame). Error msg is:

Failed to connect to your MySQL database server. MySQL reports the following message: Access denied for user 'danroth'@'localhost' (using password: YES).
Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
Are you sure that you have typed the correct database hostname?
Are you sure that the database server is running?
For more help, see the Installation and upgrading handbook. If you are unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your hosting provider.

If anyone could direct me to the appropriate help page, I would be much obliged.

Thank you,

boomerdan

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Parabola commented

boomerdan,
not a problem, we have all done stupid things :) heres where you change that setting

sites/default/setting.php

$db_url='mysql://myusername:mypassword@localhost/mydatabase';

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boomerdan commented

Thank you VERY much. The install has completed.

Currently though, I am stuck in "offline" mode, and cannot login to the site, even when I use:

localhost/database/?=admin OR localhost/database/?=user

I have temporarily changed the $update_free_access = ; from FALSE to TRUE, but still no luck.

Suggestions?

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Parabola commented

Boomer, I dont have any personal experience with this. but i did find this link, it may help :)

http://aleph-null.tv/article/20080625-0207-658.xml/Drupal-Site-Stuck-Off...'s-How-to-Unlock-It

If that doesnt work let me know.

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boomerdan commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)