in stalling Joomla

[Brian Cluff]

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 at gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1 at 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 at snaptek.com
>     <mailto:brian at 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 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>
>             <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>                  thanks, Brian:)
>                  :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>                  On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Brian Cluff
>             <brian at snaptek.com <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>
>                  <mailto:brian at snaptek.com <mailto:brian at 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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