By DeanWhit on

Hi

I have searched the forums for an answer but have not found what I need so I hope im not repeating a post.

During the site install when I come to setting up the dtabase, after entering all the database details I click on save and continue and it clears the page and starts again with no error messages, I have double cheked all the details and the port that the sql server is listening on and all is ok.

This is my first time at setting up a Drupal site and so may be missing something!

thanks

Dean

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izmeez’s picture

izmeez commented

Did you use phpmyadmin to create the database as an empty one to begin with. Drupal will then use that when it goes through it's install. You can't just give a database name and password to Drupal without creating it. See step 7 of the instructions at http://drupal.org/node/307956

DeanWhit’s picture

DeanWhit commented

Hi thanks yes created the empty database beforehand and have a user setup etc.

izmeez’s picture

izmeez commented

Is this now working for you or are you still having problems?

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sierrawayfarer commented

In the drupal install you have to use the same name as the name of the empty database you created with phpmyadmin. Second the webserver/mysql-database must be running while you do the drupal install. Copy any error messages you get during drupal install back to this forum so we may help you. Specifics are very important.