Installing Oscommerce

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Hi,
I am installing oscommerce to my website. I have setup a mysql database and uploaded all of the required files to my server. I have chmod the configure.php files also.

When installing oscommerce is asks me for the database servers ip address or hostname. I have put in my shared ip address but it wont allow that. How can I find out my database servers ip address or hostname?

Thank you,
Jeff Shotnik

[prhost]

Try entering localhost in that area

[Serra]

prhost is correct, to expand:

mySQL databases are only accessable through localhost by default. From your account, you will always use localhost. If you wish to access a mySQL database from a remote system, you need to add the IP address (or a wildcard) to the mySQL setup page to allow remote systems to access mySQL.

Originally Posted by Serra

prhost is correct, to expand:

mySQL databases are only accessable through localhost by default. From your account, you will always use localhost. If you wish to access a mySQL database from a remote system, you need to add the IP address (or a wildcard) to the mySQL setup page to allow remote systems to access mySQL.

I know ... dead thread, but it's relevant to the question I have.
I would like to access a database I have on one site from another. I have no problem for sites on the same server (shared IP 'localhost') But this one is on a different server.
I've added %.[mySite].com and the shared IP listed in Cpanel as access hosts, but no luck. I keep getting: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'www.xxx.com' (10060).
Is this something that the server must allow access? Does HG allow access from non HG sites?
Thanks
Dave

[slapshotw]

You don't want to enter the domain name, but the IP address. This is a bunch of numbers. Take the IP of the server you're accessing the database FROM, and add that to the database's allowed IP list.