Cryptic message in /moodle/install.php

Cryptic message in /moodle/install.php

by Marius Schamschula -
Number of replies: 3
I'm in the process of configuring moodle 1.5+ under Mac OS X 10.3.9 Server (Apache 1.3.33/PHP 4.3.11/MySQL 4.1.12).

Following instructions I created a moodle database.

I can log into the database as the user 'moodle' with the proper password from the command line.

However, I get the following message:

'We could not connect to the database you specified. Please check your database settings.'

Is there some way of telling where the failure to communicate is happening?

TIA
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Re: Cryptic message in /moodle/install.php

by Larry Shield -
This message is generated when either MySql isn't running, or when no database exists. Once my database was completely destroyed. MySql showed no database present and I couldn't create another due to a permission problem.

I was running on an Windows 2003 server and the only activity over the weekend was an Indexing Service rebuild. I don't know if that caused the problem, but when I rebuilt the database I shut down the Indexing Service and so far things are going well.
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Re: Cryptic message in /moodle/install.php

by Zbigniew Fiedorowicz -
Click on the highlighted text ---> could not connect to the database
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Re: Cryptic message in /moodle/install.php

by Marius Schamschula -
I had also found this myself after posting. The OLD_PASSWORD step needs to be in the installation notes.

Thanks,

Marius