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Author Topic: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL  (Read 375 times)
Romeo Dragnea
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« on: May 26, 2011, 09:27:13 AM »

Hello:)
I have problems installing Siteshaper on my own pc with XAMPP


this is the error
Could not connect to the database. Connector returned number: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL
I'm using
hostname: localhost
user:root


What I'm doing wrong Smiley
Thank a lot


Edit:
I also tried installing on other machine, same error.
« Last Edit: May 26, 2011, 03:13:46 PM by Romeo Dragnea » Logged
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« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2011, 05:39:12 PM »

Hello,

That would be an issue with your local setup. Without seeing the setup it would be impossible to diagnose. I would first make sure that all services in xampp are running.
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« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2011, 12:40:44 AM »

The root user didn't had a password. Now is working.
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