mbunker

thanks for your responces. I am in communication with the techs at my hosting company. Is it OK for me to ask other questions or is this just for Total Choice customers? If it is OK... I'm wondering.... do some hosting companies allow thier databases to be accessed remotely and some not? I am working with 2 hosting companies. one has a place in the cpanel under mysql to add hosts, the other doesn't. The second one says that technically it is not possible because the database has to be on the server that the url is pointing to. Is this always the case? or is it just the case with some hosts because of the way they work? thanks, Michele

Hi ! I'm new..... I'd like to reopen the topic. I am trying to connect to a database (that uses Cpanel) from star.hostcolor.us. $dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "me_phpbb", "<password here>") or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error()); mysql_select_db ("me_phpbb"); I get a similar message to the above. I cannot connect to the database because: Access denied for user 'me_phpbb'@'localhost' (using password: YES) I have added an access post in the cpanel for both www.totalvibe.universalmusicstudios.com (my url) and star.hostcolor.us my 2nd server. Any thoughts on this? Michele