> yeah... I figured that when you said 'While you at it, look into how to
> create a user, you will need to do that in order for the Joomla installed
> to attach onto the database and create it's initial database.' So I looked
> into it and I am off to the next section!
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
>
>> You are probably at the part where it is asking to to supply a database
>> user name and password. It's not asking you for names of stuff which it
>> will create, it's asking you to supply the username and password of an
>> already existing mysql user.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> On 02/01/2013 01:49 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>
>>> yeah apparently 'could not connect' does not mean 'not installed'. lol
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com
>>> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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 <brian@snaptek.com
>>> <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> 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
>>> <bmike1@gmail.com <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>
>>> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> thanks, Brian:)
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Brian Cluff
>>> <brian@snaptek.com <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>
>>> <mailto:brian@snaptek.com <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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