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Hi, I am completely new to this, I have never worked with CMS’s but I have been asked to understand C5. I have uploaded C5 to my web space, I have sent up the MySQL database (I think) but I am getting ‘Unable to connect to database’. I know this is a very basic problem but can anyone help me?

 
ADK replied on at Permalink Reply
ADK
Same problem here.

Error is a missing file:
Missing file: /htdocs/concrete/libraries/3rdparty/adodb/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php


This file does not appear to be included with the download? is it something we are doing wrong?

Thanks

Adam
jgarcia replied on at Permalink Reply
jgarcia
ADK - that file is including in the download. make sure you are looking at the concrete directory that is inside of where concrete is installed and not just the root 'libraries' directory.

it looks like the error is more related to the fact that it seems like your web directory path should be /srv/www/htdocs rather than just /htdocs.

nadsrash - you shouldn't have to "send up" the MySQL database. you should just create an empty DB on your server and then just provide the credentials in the install process. if you're moving an already installed site from one server to another, you might have to adjust your /config/site.php file where the mysql credentials are specified.
nadsrash replied on at Permalink Reply
Thanks I've got it sorted it was my server address which was wrong, nothing else but as I'm new to it all i had no idea what was wrong, thanks for your help.