[support] Installation Issue with MySQL

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting "Tom Holmes Jr." <tom at tomholmes.net>:

> I've got Drupal working on one or two other machines because the
> database was local.
>
> Now I've got an instance of Drupal I want to install ... but the
> database is on another server .....
> I put in the database, database user, user password, the new server name
> and port .... and it STILL tries to connect to localhost like it is
> NEVER getting the name of the server I entered in.
>
> I'm about to go into the install.mysql.inc file and just hard-code it at
> this point ... just to get it setup ....
>
> Any ideas?     Thanks!

What is in your local hosts file?  Can you trace the path to the 
``other machine'' to determine why you're using the localhost?  This is 
a setup issue.

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