got it working! Thanks. I had to delete everything in the sites directory and unpack joomla again to trigger the reinstall of joomla but it's all working. yipee!

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Tom Haws <tom.haws@gmail.com> wrote:

Hmm.  These are always a headache to install when you are new.  You are almost there now.  Did you set up the Joomla admin username and password somewhere?  I assume those would be in the configuration.php file.  One possible approach is to delete that file and see if you can trigger Joomla to redo the installation now that you have the MySQL set up correctly.  It wouldn't be a bad refresher.  ???

Tp,

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On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

I found instructions to:

Check your tmp and logs folder paths inside the main configuration.php file and make sure those folders are world writeable, 777 should work…

And I changed the permissions of those two folders. Unfortunately, now when I load the admin page I am told:

Warning

Username and password do not match or you do not have an account yet.

But I just got done creating it for sure!

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Tom. So I need to create a new MySL for every site.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Tom Haws <tom.haws@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm no wizard at this, but I always start mysql like this:

mysql -uroot -p

Now, are you saying you gave Joomla the mysql root username and password to use?

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On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

so is this for each 'site' I create? I did create a user and I am told:

An error occurred while trying to create the database onlineworkfinder.us.
The user may not have enough privileges to create a database. The required database may need to be created separately before you can install Joomla!.

 which says  he doesn't have the proper permissions.. But the username is 'root'. Doesn't that mean he has permission to do anything? Please, tell me what I need to do to give him the permissions he needs. 

Well, this is strange: I can start mysql  as my user but not with sudo.

$ sudo mysql

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

So what do I need to do?

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Tom Haws <tom.haws@gmail.com> wrote:

You do need to create a MySQL user and database for Joomla.  And you do need to give that user all the required permissions on the Joomla database.  Then all you have to tell Joomla is the name of the database and the MySQL username and password.

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On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

I think I know what I need to do.... add my user to the mysql group (or whatever it is called).

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

so how do I set it up correctly? I mean it was working!

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

but before I created the link it went to the admin page.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:41 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:

Sounds like your install is not installed correctly.  ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Tue, 2/26/13, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote: From: Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> Subject: Re: joomla To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 3:05 PM I've already installed it on my local machine. The reason I'm thinking I need a database for each webpage is that I created a link to the webpage's location in /var/www in an experiment to be able to not store the page in /var/www but rather in ~/Documents/<etc> . Then when I went to the admin page it wanted to setup joomla again. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:55 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote: Mike, It appears you are thinking a DB is a physical thing like a static webpage.  It is physical in that it resides on your file system, however it is not like a static webpage. Take a look at these tutorials http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/tutorial.html.  They should help you understand the what and how of databases, specifically MySql. Here is some PHP info on how to work with MySql databases  http://www.php.net/manual/en/set.mysqlinfo.php. I would recommend understanding the basics before trying to install Joomla on your local LAMP install.  ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Tue, 2/26/13, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote: From: Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> Subject: Re: joomla To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 12:27 AM I was thinking..... Do you need to create a new database for every new website? If so I think I need to chown the database or maybe add it to a group. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote: why is it asking for database info?! oh bother. well I tried to create a database but this is the error it gives: An error occurred while trying to create the database onlineworkfinder.us. The user may not have enough privileges to create a database. The required database may need to be created separately before you can install Joomla!. So please, what do I need to do. Should I chown something? If so, what? :-)~MIKE~(-: -----Inline Attachment Follows----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -----Inline Attachment Follows----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

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