Help with MyBB and MySQL, Help or Dex will kill me

[KGladiator]

Well, I wanted to make a forum but instead of sitting down and doing all of the scripting by hand (which is a very slow process) I decided to try using MyBB. I have my own webserver with home.ntelos.net which has 1 GB of space and unlimited traffic, bandwidth, monthly transfer, and whatever else you can think of.

Anyway, I downloaded it and put it on my webserver correctly and followed the instructions to get it to work. For people that have used it, everything was writable and was working fine. Then I got to a page where you had to enter your Database Host, Username, Password, and the database name.

I went and downloaded MySQL v4.1 (I had a tutorial on how to use it) and installed it, but it only asked for a password and it didn't give me a host, username, or database name.

I have no idea what to do and I've been struggling for hours on this. Dex and I are going to try to set up a forum for school without all the ads and complete customization capabilities. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

[SuperMarioMaster]

Enter your password?
Also have you tried asking here Link

[Draco Icebane]

The database host, I assume, is the URL of the MySQL server. This is a safe assumption since in most SSL's you need to specify the system the MySQL server is on, even if it is on the same machine as your code. In such a case, the database host is "localhost" for Windows machines, "127.0.0.1" for Linux machines, or an equivalent reflexive.

The username and password are the login data for MySQL's administrator. The default username is "root" and it will have full privileges. The forum software will attempt to connect to MySQL, to retrieve and edit data, using this information. This is not the login information for your forum account. Please remember to set the correct Privileges on your MySQL account or it will not be allowed to modify anything and you will get lots of errors.

A "MySQL database" is actually made of several databases; the database name is the name of the one database that holds all of the tables for your forum to store posts, threads, etc. You would make a new database in MySQL and call it, say, "forum". Then in the forum setup, you would tell it that the database name to use is "forum", and it will set up all of its tables in that database.

This post has been edited by Draco Icebane on Jul 27 2008, 11:08 PM

[KGladiator]

I'll try that... I didn't know about that. Thanks a bunch! And I did check the community board... it didn't help a whole lot. It just said "Enter your username and password and continue the setup process."

This post has been edited by KGladiator on Jul 28 2008, 01:13 PM

[Dex]

Damn Draco is smart