aikiDave

Many, many thanks! It turned out that I misunderstood one of the variables I needed to set, and had the db name incorrect. Changed that, and all is well! I appreciate the fast reply!

Hi all, I've been trying to find an answer to this question, with little luck. I'm currently trying to setup pmachine on my Web site. I'm following its instructions, which ask me to supply: MYSQL Address (I'm using localhost) MYSQL Username MYSQL Password Database Name I created the database before hand, but when I run through the installation, I get the following message: Good. A connection to your server has been established.... There was a problem trying to create the following database: pmachine Please contact your hosting provider to verify that you have the privileges necessary to do so. Anyone ever install pmachine? If so, any thoughts on what I need to do? Thanks.

That's the answer I anticipated. I did come upon another solution: I can just create a PHP interface into the databases so he can update them from there. That should work! Thanks for the response!

Hello all, I'm curious: I'd like to have a second person help me manage my Web site. I have already given them an FTP account, but I'd like to give them access to the database I have created without giving them full access to cpanel. Is this possible by creating another cpanel account? If so, how do I go about doing that (I can't seem to find it myself). Another option would be to allow him access to the database, but I don't know how to do that without first going through cpanel. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

I'm afraid I don't personally know the answer to your problem, but I am curious as to who you are using to help with your blog. I set up mine using www.blogger.com, and it didn't require that I add anything special to my site--I just had to be sure I knew the user name and password necessary to FTP the blog. The whole process took me maybe a couple of minutes. If you aren't using www.blogger.com, maybe you could check them out and see if you have better luck. Not much help, I suppose, but you never know... aikiDave

Richard, I don't know if this helps very much, but I haven't yet added a custom error page to my site, and I get the exact same error page as you are mentioning--complete with the "...while trying to use an ErrorDocument..." statement. It's kind of strange--other 404 pages don't have that message, that I have seen. It looks as if the problem doesn't have anything to do with removing your custom error page. Not terribly helpful, but it's always nice to narrow down the possibilities, right? Good luck, Dave

Glad I was able to help! And no need to feel dumb--if I had a nickel for every time I wondered why a script wouldn't run, only to discover that I hadn't put a semi-colon somewhere.... Sheesh. Hope your scripts go well, aikiDave

Well, if that doesn't work, here's a snippet of what I use to include a file: <?PHP include($DOCUMENT_ROOT . '/name of file'); ?> So, to include the counter, you would probably put: <?PHP include($DOCUMENT_ROOT .'/counter/counter.php'); ?> Might want to check your code and see if it looks like this at all. Again, hope this helps, aikiDave

I'm pretty new at PHP myself, so I hope this doesn't sound too ridiculous: When I had that problem, I suddenly realized that the file I added the PHP code was still saved as .HTML. When I resaved the file using the .PHP extension, it worked. I only mention this since you said: It was the "...in the html file" part that made me wonder if your page had the right extension. I hope this helps, aikiDave

If I could ask a question here... I notice that a number of search engine sites request that you pay a fee to have your site listed. I would guess that the money you pay is to speed up the process of getting your site to appear during a search? It would seem strange that only those who pay a fee would ever get their site to appear in a search engine. In other words, it seems as if you often have two choices: (1) pay a fee, and get your site listed immediately, or (2) pay nothing, and be patient. Is this correct? Just curious! Many Thanks, aikiDave

For what its worth, until I came to Simple Net Hosting I only had a experience with ASP and Access; however, with the tools they provide, I've had no trouble transitioning to PHP/MySQL. I'm finding it gives me all the functionality I need. --aikiDave

Head Guru: Thanks very much! That was the information I needed! And I agree: the information provided that tells you how to connect to the database is very helpful. Although I will be happy to post something in the Reviews forum, I must say that I have been very impressed with the tools and service provided by Simple Net Hosting. I've been maintaining a colleague's Web site for some time now--I only wish I had had the tools and capabilities I have here! (Hm...maybe I should talk to him about moving over... you think?) Again, many thanks for the help!

Hello! I'm new to ***** Hosting (just got everything set up a couple of days ago, in fact) and I was wondering if anyone here might be able to help me out. I've some experience with Web design, but all of my database work has been with ASP. I'm learning a bit of how PHP works, but I keep having trouble accessing my database. I am told that, while I can connect to the server, it cannot find the database itself. Here's what I've been using: $dbh=@mysql_connect ("localhost", "db_user", "password") or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error()); if (!$dbh) { echo( "<p>Unable to connect to the " . "database server at this time.</p>" ); exit(); } mysql_select_db("db_",$dbh); if (!@mysql_select_db("db_") ) { echo( "<p>Unable to locate the db " . "database at this time.</p>" ); exit(); } Sorry if this goes beyond the scope of support, but I just thought I'd see if anyone could see what I was doing wrong. Many thanks!