Textpattern CMS

#1 2011-05-04 07:05:37

HarryG

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Registered: 2011-01-12

Posts: 21

SOLVED: Win server, Plesk pnl, Can Not Connect To Server on install

I want to share a solution to a problem that vexed me for 3 days.

For days I couldn’t get past the 2nd setup screen. I finally hit upon this technique. Perhaps it will help others who happen to use Windows/Plesk-based hosting companies.

1. Log onto the Plesk front panel, click Home to bring up the main control panel.
2. On the control panel, click Databases. On the resulting screen, click Add New Database to create the database that will be used for Textpattern. The new database appears on the list of database
3. Click on this new database name in the list of databases. A database management page, entitled “Users for database <new_name> on domain <your_domain>” appears.
4. Click on Add a new database user. A new screen appears; enter the <user_name> and <user_password>.
5. This is the key: On the “Users for database <new_name> on domain <your_domain>” page, now click WebAdmin. This brings up the phpMyAdmin main menu. (Took me forever to find it!)
6. Click on Database (or any of the other submenus, such as Show MySQL runtime information). On the top of the resulting page, in bold blue letters, appears the text: Server: localhost:xxxx where xxxx is a four-digit number. Note this number.
7. Now install Textpattern. On the 2nd setup screen, enter the following information:
   MySQL User name: <user_name> as above
   MySQL Password: <user_password> as above
   MySQL Server name: localhost:xxxx where the xxxx is the number you noted before
   Database name: <new_name> as above

Now it ought to work.