I'm a newbie when it comes to drupal and MySQL, but I've been developing software under unix/linux for 20 years. I'm running Fedora Core 4.0, MySQL 4.1.11, and installed drupal 4.6.5. I followed all of the steps to setup the initial user's list in MySQL, and the steps to create a drupal mysql user and database. I have set $db_url in sites/default/setting.php to:
Mysql://drupalusername:drupalpassword@fullhostname/drupaldatabasename
I've set:
$base_url="http://fullhostname";
Of course these values are changed for the e-mail, but they are the correct values as the names imply.
The problem I have is when I point my browser to the drupal directory, I get the following error in the browser window:
Access denied for user 'drupaluser'@'fullhostname' (using password: YES)
I can view a test index.html in the web root directory, so I know apache is up and running. I get do a "mysqladmin version --password=rootpassword" to talk to the mysqldemon and that is running. The basic mysql test show the databases are there.
Considering I did not get any errors while configuring everything, I must have misunderstood something. I realize there are probably hundreds of things that I could have done wrong, but can I get some pointers or things to try? I've double checked everything several times.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Regards, Kory