Very lost on what to do. Would appreciate any help if anyone has some to give.

[thefirstfive]

Tonight I just bought my copy of vbulletin and I am having a real hard time trying to get it correctly hosted. I tried going step by step and still havent been able to make it work. I know that I can transfer it to my website via ftp just fine but I am guessing that I must not be entering something correctly to get it working.

The step regarding to entering values with a php editor is what consfuses m the most. I know it goes step by step beside but I am still a little lost. I assume you have to enter each field with your own set of values before it will work correctly. What seems to throw me off the most is the MASTER DATABASE SERVER NAME AND PORT section. If any can guide me through this section that would be great.

BTW, I am using godady.com as a host if that helps any.


Thanks for any input! Hope to have as soon as possible.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Hello,

First of all you will need to get the following information from your host (unless you have created the database yourself in a server control panel, then you should already know the values).

MySQL servername (this will in most cases just be 'localhost')
Databasename
MySQL username (with full permissions to the database)
Password for MySQL user.

Now edit the config.php file an fill out the following lines:

$config['MasterServer']['servername'] = 'localhost';
(this line can be kept at the default of localhost in most cases)

$config['Database']['dbname'] = 'Databasename goes here';
$config['MasterServer']['username'] = 'MySQL username goes here';
$config['MasterServer']['password'] = 'Password goes here ';

[SNN]

For GoDaddy your configuration will look like this:
$config['MasterServer']['servername'] = 'mysql###.secureserver.net';

$config['Database']['dbname'] = 'Databasename goes here';
$config['MasterServer']['username'] = 'forumname';
$config['MasterServer']['password'] = 'Password';
Instead of forumname put your forum name and put a password you will remember in case you have to use phpMyAdmin or anything like that.

[il-logical]

How do you figure out the database name?

[Steve Machol]

You create one. Here is our online documentation for creating a new database and db user:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/create_database

And from the MySQL site:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/CREATE_DATABASE.html

[il-logical]

So it is the my mySQL database. I see, I thought they were two different databases. Thank you.