By FidelGonzales on

I have setup one Drupal site approximately one year ago and have forgotten the procedure, since I didn't follow through with development since I opted for another route.

Right now, I have used FTP to upload the latest Drupal 4.7 files to my server and received that page that says it cannot connect to the server. After reading through some documentation, I found that I must modify the settings.php file in the default directory. I haven't found anywhere upon documentation that states exactly where I must place my user, password and database name information, but I figured it may be within Line 87 and 88. Am I correct?

$db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename';
$db_prefix = '';

I have done this and now receive a blank page. Any recommendations? I am willing to read but have yet to find basic install information pertaining to my issue on the link found below.

http://drupal.org/about

Thank you in advance.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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VM commented

a videocast to setup http://drupal.org/videocasts/installing-4.7
you are correct lines 87 & 88 are what need to be adjusted.

where username = your db username, which must have all permissions
password = db username password

localhost = mysql server, localhost works in most cases
databasename = the database name including the db prefix if there is one added on by your host.

you have imported the proper .mysql file to populate your database correct ?