So, I’ve downloaded the .zip, unpacked it, edited the config.php with fitting credentials (yes, I have created a database and user) uploaded the “lists”-folder and navigated my browser to [my domain]/lists/admin. All I’m seeing is this: http://i.imgur.com/3OUZgd2.png
you might want to either look over the config.php file and make sure everything looks ok (I’ve found errors related to commented lines, missing “$”, etc.)
Or, you can copy a clean config.php file to the config directory, and see if anything changes.
“Cannot connect to database, access denied. Please check your configuration or contact the administrator.”
Which makes perfect sense since the credentials doesn’t match. The only lines I alter are the following:
# what is your Mysql database server hostname
$database_host = "localhost";
# what is the name of the database we are using
$database_name = "phplist";
# what user has access to this database
$database_user = "phplist";
# and what is the password to login to control the database
$database_password = "1234";
If that’s the case, the error you are getting is the system saying that it cannot connect to the database, it’s either on another machine, it hasn’t been setup yet, or one of the credentials are wrong
Hi.
I have similar problem. When I try test script for conetd to database:
<?php
mysql_connect(':/tmp/mariadb55.sock', 'db_user', 'db_pass') or die('Could not
connect the database : Username or password incorrect');
mysql_select_db('db_name') or die ('No database found');
echo 'Database Connected successfully';
?>
it works, but when I use the same value in config.php it says:
Cannot connect to database, Sql server is not running. Please check your configuration or contact the administrator.
Maybe not your case… but this may happen when using the old mysql password. So, indeed…devs, you should better catch this specific case and alert the user… thanks