[support] Uploading and getting online

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Steve Hays <hays at ohio.edu>:

> I have uploaded both Drupal folder and database.  I'm getting all my
> theme and .css info, but haven't yet succeeded in connecting to the db.
>
> I think the key is settings.php.  Is this how the line should read--
> where user and password are those assigned when creating the db on the
> remote host prior to upload?
>
>  $db_url = 'mysql://user:password@dbfilename'
>

You're missing the host

$db_url = 'mysql://user:password@hostname/dbfilename'


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