[drupal-support] New to CVS, database connection issues

[Thatguywhowon'tgivehisname]

The database, tables, etc. were created brand new as
this is not a site I am upgrading.



--- Earl Miles <merlin at logrus.com> wrote:

> Thatguywhowon'tgivehisname wrote:
> > I decided to try to use the CVS version of Drupal
> on a
> > new site I am working on.  I am using 4.3, 4.4 and
> 4.5
> > on other sites but this is my first foray into CVS
> and
> > I am eager to learn.
> > 
> > I wget'ted the cvs tarball and extracted it using
> my
> > normal tar vxfz.  I then tried two things:  
> > 
> > 1- I created a directory under the sites directory
> > with the domain name and copied the settings.php
> from
> > the sites/default directory there and modified the
> > database connect string and the base url.  I get
> the
> > fancy, new "Unable to connect to database server"
> > screen with this information-  The MySQL error
> was: . 
> > Notice the dot after the colon.  That is not a
> period
> > at the end of my sentence.  
> > 
> > 2- I then changed the settings.php file in
> > sites/default to my database information and base
> url.
> >  Same result.
> > 
> > If I modify my Apache virtual host directives for
> this
> > site to point to the directories for an existing
> 4.6.3
> > setup everything works fine.  It is only when I
> use
> > the cvs directories that it fails.
> > 
> > I know that it is using the settings.php because
> the
> > portion of the error screen that says "Currently,
> the
> > username is root and the database server is
> localhost"
> >  changes when I change the username in the
> > settings.php file.
> > 
> > I must be doing something wrong.  What am I
> missing?
> 
> Did you run the update.php script to update your
> database?
> 
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