[support] Installation Issue with MySQL

[Tom Holmes Jr.]

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.

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?

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Quoting "Tom Holmes Jr." <tom at tomholmes.net>:
>
>   
>> I've got Drupal working on one or two other machines because the
>> database was local.
>>
>> Now I've got an instance of Drupal I want to install ... but the
>> database is on another server .....
>> I put in the database, database user, user password, the new server name
>> and port .... and it STILL tries to connect to localhost like it is
>> NEVER getting the name of the server I entered in.
>>
>> I'm about to go into the install.mysql.inc file and just hard-code it at
>> this point ... just to get it setup ....
>>
>> Any ideas?     Thanks!
>>     
>
> What is in your local hosts file?  Can you trace the path to the 
> ``other machine'' to determine why you're using the localhost?  This is 
> a setup issue.
>
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