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By _dodinz887 on
Hello everybody,
Can somebody help me to figure out what is the really cause of my problem, I have a social network site which I have developed in my localhost, when I transferred it to my hosting provider, the site did not work. the Site-offline page appeared and it seems there were problems telling to check my database settings in settings.php. I know this is not a username or password configuration because I check my settings.php several times whether I used wrong password or username and database name but I got all that correct and running in my localhost because I made it the same access.
To simulate the problem, I created new file for settings.php to make the site re-install a new drupal database, I then created a new database in my hosting provider's control panel for the new installation but when I was in the database installation step. It seems the drupal cannot locate the dbase which i have just created and keep on repeating the same step.
From my own point, I guess this is really a server problem, I just want somebody out there to support my thoughts or It would be very much appreciated if there is anybody can tell what is the real problem.
Hope to hear from you guys! =)
Thanks in advance.
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Are you sure the db is on the same box as the webserver (ie localhost)-- some hosts have separate db servers which will require changing the settings.php to reflect the correct url.
Hi WorldFallz! Thanks for
Hi WorldFallz!
Thanks for replying. =) Yeah they are both on the same webserver,(localhost) but what surprising is the old social network site which is currently live is working.( That was developed using Drupal 5). I created the new dbase in the same location in the control panel but i made a subdomain for the new site then created seperate ftp access to upload my files......