[support] Installation Issue with MySQL

[Earnie Boyd]

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

> I agree this is a setup issue ... I didn't think it would have anything
> to do with the local hosts file.
> The name of the database server I can ping, and I can use Squirrel or
> MySQL Administrator to connect and authenticate to the database.
>
> I presumed that the install.php page got the user, password, database,
> host, etc from the form on that page.
> It seems like the username, password, database are all correct ....
> but the host seems to constantly default to localhost and NOT the host
> that I entered in on the form.
>

Let me guess, you copied the settings.php from development to 
production.  Change the copied file with your favorite editor.

> I even went to install.mysql.inc file and hardcoded my database ... and
> it still didn't work ....
> Maybe I need to bounce Drupal after I changed that .inc file?
>

You're just asking for issues.  There is no need to modify this file!!!

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