Quoting "Tom Holmes Jr." tom@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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