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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: in stalling Joomla
the computer says that both packages are already installed but the joomla
instalation still says: Could not connect to the database. Connector
returned number: Unable to connect to the Database: Could not connect to
MySQL.
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Brian Cluff <> wrote:

> Install the package mysql-server and also make sure you have the package
> php5-mysql installed.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 02/01/2013 01:28 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> it is asking me for a database so I figure mysql but it isn't installed.
>> No problem.... I'll apt-get it. Apt-get install mysql<tab tab> gives a
>> lot of download candidates though. Which should I install? I'm thinking
>> mysql-server but there is also  ...server-5.5 and ...server-core-5.5.
>> Here are the candidates:
>> $ sudo apt-get install mysql
>> mysql-client           mysql-mmm-tools        mysql-testsuite
>> mysql-client-5.5       mysql-proxy            mysql-testsuite-5.5
>> mysql-client-core-5.5  mysql-server           mysqltuner
>> mysql-common           mysql-server-5.5       mysql-utilities
>> mysql-mmm-agent        mysql-server-core-5.5  mysql-workbench
>> mysql-mmm-common       mysql-source-5.5       mysql-workbench-data
>> mysql-mmm-monitor      mysqltcl
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:

>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Michael Havens <
>> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     thanks, Brian:)
>>     :-)~MIKE~(-:

>>
>>
>>     On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Brian Cluff <
>>     <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> wrote:

>>
>>         On 02/01/2013 12:48 PM, Michael Havens wrote:

>>
>>             I'm at pre instalation checklist now. One of the issues I
>>             have with this
>>             section is that my outpu buffering is set to on and they
>>             recommend off.
>>             I think I am going to leave it as it stands now but wanted
>>             to get advise.

>>
>>
>>         I believe that setting is optional, so you should be safe
>>         leaving it along as it won't really matter for a personal site.

>>
>>
>>             The other issue is configuration.php Writeable. After
>>             googling a little
>>             I figured I bette make it writable and so did.

>>
>>
>>         Yup, you have to make it writable so that it can create and
>>         modify the config.  Later once you have everything set like you
>>         like it, you can safely set it to read only and that can help
>>         with security.

>>
>>         Brian Cluff

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