Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/24563 Project: Drupal Version: 4.6.0 Component: other Category: tasks Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: Bèr Kessels Updated by: Bèr Kessels Status: patch Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/settings_clarify.patch (814 bytes) I was just following a complete newbie when he installed Drupal. I will skip the database-import part, it was hell :) But more important, IMO is that he could not really read the documentation in settings.php correctly. He assumed the part localhost/database in mysql://username:password@localhost/database referred to his database directory. Since he was working on localhost, and knew nothing of the concept of a SQL server, this is not too odd. So I chnaged this into mysql://username:password@databaseserver/databasename in the attached patch. The filled out example reamins the same, with localhost in the url (since 99% has localhost as sql server) Note: I purposely did not user database_name, sinxce that will be confused with the prefix documentation, which uses the _ in its examples. And I hate (or well... dislike) CamelCase. Bèr Kessels