Stuck at installing "phpBB "

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sharon
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Stuck at installing "phpBB "

Post by sharon »

Hi,
I am following one of the guides in the Forum (viewtopic.php?t=1423&highlight=phpbb+masked) or installation and configuration and here are the results:

1. Configuring Mysql----successful
2. Configuring Samba----successful
3. Configuring Apache2-----successful

Now i am on the last two and I am stuck at installing "phpBB"


I used the code as was on the guide in my x terminal:

Code:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge phpBB

I can't see anythyng happenning to say that something is going on. The command prompt had changed from "Xbox root #" to just '>'.

I can see network traffic in my taskbar.

Can anyone tell me what is happenning?

or is there an easier way to achieve the results.

Thank you.
sharon
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Post by sharon »

I tried again...it worked through 'putty'. When I was using vnc my keyboard couldn't specify this command '~'. Putty worked fine....and it is great.


I get to the installation page for phbb at:
http://192.168.0.4/phpBB/install/install.php

I type in all the fields after searching for instructions here and I get the following error.

""Warning: mysql_connect(): Lost connection to MySQL server during query in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/phpBB/db/mysql4.php on line 48

Warning: mysql_error(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/phpBB/db/mysql4.php on line 330

Warning: mysql_errno(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/phpBB/db/mysql4.php on line 331
phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database ""

Prior to that I used webmin to go to Mysql and could not find the database "phpbb".......i wasn't able to create it in the xterminal.

I created a database without tables (i did not know what i should put in the fields) in webmin. I was able to create a table 'phpbb'

then I went to the phpbb installation page and I get the above errors.

Not able to pass beyond this level...no matter how high I jump I am at the same level.

Can someone suggest what i should try next to do a proper installation of phpbb.

Thank you :D
jledhead
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Post by jledhead »

using webmin (or command line, your preference) create a user in mysql. then give that user permissions on the phpbb db.

or you can install phpmyadmin. its very good for administering an SQL database.
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