Your access permissions are not valid. Add user pete with a password to your grant tables as configured with PHPBB
Or Add skip-grant-tables in you're my.cnf config file. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MySQL and PHPBB access problem > > Hope you guys can help a n00b, although I just got my MCSA. I have a > server at my home network behind a router/switch. It's running Server2000 > SP4. IIS is installed from the CD itself. I already have an ftp running > for practice. That went well. I found phpbb 2.0.8 and downloaded it. I > didn't install it at first. I also got MySQL 4.0.18 and Control Center > 0.9.4. Those 2 installed ok. So did the ODBC driver from their website. I > made a database named forumdb but didn't add anything to it. I also made > sure it was connected. Then I installed Php 4.3.5 and phpMyAdmin 2.5.6. > That seemed to go well. I added them to my web folder that IIS points to. > I also added index.php to the Documents area under Default Webpage > Properties. It is just under the top doc Default.htm. > All of these installs I did from what each had recommended on their own > website. Now I come to phpbb. Everything went in ok. Got to the "Welcome > to PHPBB 2 Installation" through IE on the server itself. I put in the > values I thought were correct but I get the following error: > > Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user: > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES) in F:\Website > Home\phpbb2\db\mysql4.php on line 48 > > Warning: mysql_error(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link > resource in F:\Website Home\phpbb2\db\mysql4.php on line 330 > > Warning: mysql_errno(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link > resource in F:\Website Home\phpbb2\db\mysql4.php on line 331 > phpBB : Critical Error > > Could not connect to the database > > Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I'm assuming a logon problem. > I have tried various users from all 3 programs along with their passwords > but still get the same error. Plus I had Dreamweaver MX installed and I > couldn't change the phpbb config file to 666. I uninstalled DW and made > .php be associated with notepad and the attribute for the file is not > "read only". But I still can't get the right click menu that displays like > on their flash tutorial though. CHMOD is not there. I hope that isn't the > problem. > What I also need to know is where to find the information to enter in each > line of the PHPBB Install page. DSN: I tried "localhost" and "DC-1" and > the server's IP. None worked. The database name is the one I made in > MySQL. It is connected presently. Should it be turned off? The main > problem seems to be that I don't know where to find the database user and > password listed to add it to the form. > > Any other info you need to help find an answer I would be glad to post. > Hope you guys can help. Thanks in advance. > Pete Hinkley > > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]