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Can you provide a little information about how you configured the site in DreamWeaver? One of the options you are asked when setting up the site is where you will be "testing" your php. I generally select the option that says I want to upload and test on the remote server. IF that is what you chose, you CAN get away with using "localhost" as the mysql server. If you indeed set it up like that, you shouldn't need to do the "%" thing for access hosts. In other words, if you are designing a page in DreamWeaver, and you use localhost, and use DreamWeaver to "put" (and let it also put the associated files), it SHOULD work. On a related note...when DreamWeaver uploads (aka "puts") your file on the TCH server, it also uploads a file with the necessary connection information. This file gets put in a folder named "Connections". You might take a look to see if the needed connection file is in that folder.

Thanks TCH-David. That makes sense to me. Dreamweaver does allow me to use localhost to connect to the TCH MySQL server, but I believe that's because I've configured Dreamweaver to use my TCH Server as the testing server. So, if I start editing a PHP page in Dreamweaver, and want to test the MySQL connection, Dreamweaver does it by uploading a temporary copy of the page to my TCH site where, from what you explained, localhost will work fine. So, I guess it gives me the illusion of using localhost here at home, even though it's all really happening on the TCH end. Thanks again for your explanation.

Sorry, didn't know. Is there an advantage (perhaps security-related) of using the domain name vs. using localhost? I've used localhost in the past without a problem. Thanks for any advice!

First, the MySQL server should be set to localhost Then, yes, as TCH-Andy said, there's something wrong with your username and database name. If you create a MySQL database and name it junk, and create a user and name it junkuser, the REAL user and dbnames will have your CPanel username at the beginning. So, for example, if your CPanel username is joey, your db username will be joey_junkuser, and your dbname will be joey_junk You would need to enter these into Dreamweaver for the username and password.

Thanks, those are great!

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Yes, the Sun Java Console item. You should be just fine without it for now. I don't think Oprah will require you to make use of that option either.

Yes, it sounds like you are perhaps confusing the current version of Internet Explorer with your current version of Windows. What you've said indicates that you're OK. Regarding Java. The website says you need SOME Java Virtual Machine enabled. One such VM is the Microsoft's VM, another is Sun's Java Virtual Machine. My personal recommendation is to go with the one from Sun, which you can download and install for free. Start at http://java.sun.com and go to downloads. Look for a link to download JRE 5.0 Update 5. Once installed, you may need to go back to Internet Explorer and go to the "Advanced" tab of Internet options to enable Sun's Java Virtual Machine. Hope this works for you!

By the way, you said that the files are in Macromedia format. What's probably happening here is that DreamWeaver has associated itself with files having the .php extension. Double-clicking one would probably open it for editing in DreamWeaver. You CAN upload files individually, as you said. But besides that being tedious, it's also not very reliable. FTPing the entire file, and using CPanel to unzip it, is far far far more reliable (not 100 percent reliable, but pretty close).

You might also at least check ipconfig and to a tracert to see if it tells you anything. Go to the start menu and choose "Run...". Type "cmd". Then, type ipconfig. It should indicate whether you even have an IP address assigned. If so, try a tracert to some website, and see if you can see where it's getting hung up. Try something like: tracert yahoo.com It should tell you the ip addresses along the route to your requested site. If the first few show up, and then it gets hung up, you'll at least some idea of where the problem might be happening.

Thank you. That helps a LOT!

OK, sorry, and please pardon my dumbness about this, because I'm just trying to learn about LDAP, but... What exactly is meant by "We don't support LDAP's for virtual hosting"? When some people ask about LDAP, I'm thinking that they mean that they wish to somehow set up an LDAP server on their shared TCH account. On the other hand, I'm thinking that some people mean that they wish to run a regular old website on their shared TCH account, but be able to access an LDAP server that resides elsewhere...not on TCH. It seems that these are two fundamentally different things. So when someone says TCH doesn't support LDAP's for virtual hosting, is this a blanket statement that covers anything LDAP-related, or is it specifically related to one of my two interpretations? I'll be satisfied with the blanket statement, but I just need to know for sure. My specific situation is this: I carefully read all the TCH discussion about LDAPs, and thought, OH...I think TCH-Mike is saying that we can't host an LDAP server on our own site. But then, I was thinking, I don't really want to do that...I just want to use someone else's LDAP server that's not at TCH. So, then I'm trying to configure TikiWiki to make it work, beating my head against the wall for hours, thinking "Why in the world doesn't this work?" Now, my head is very sore, and it might just be because I figured that TCH-Mike meant something specific about LDAP, when really he meant that ANYTHING LDAP-related is impossible at TCH. So, I guess I'm just desperate for an interpretation, so that my head stops hurting. Thanks for your patience.

Bruce's reply points to a thread that indicates that we can't set up an LDAP Server with TCH shared hosting. On an LDAP-related note, TikiWiki supports LDAP authorization using an external LDAP server. For example, I teach at a university that has an LDAP Server. TikiWiki allows me to configure it to authorize users via that LDAP server. HOWEVER...after a lot of fumbling around to find out why the authorization wasn't working, I'm pretty sure the reason it doesn't is that TCH does not have the necessary pieces installed to make it work. So, even if phpbb might have LDAP abilities, and even if you have an LDAP server elsewhere, there is a chance you may not be able to get them working on TCH shared hosting, at least not now.

If you don't mind my asking, or if anyone else is in the same boat, has anyone found a solution to getting math to work with MediaWiki? I'm trying to do the same thing, and would appreciate any advice. I've opened a support ticket, but would still like to know of others' experiences. Norm Krumpe

I've switched to Thunderbird in the last month or so. Love how it handles IMAP. However, I do miss being able to synchronize my PocketPC contacts and calendar with Outlook. I also used MailFrontier Desktop as my spam filter on Outlook. The filter built in to Thunderbird is not nearly as reliable, nor can I find one that works well with IMAP. Nevertheless, I really really am liking Thunderbird. Norm

I'm having trouble upgrading PHP-Nuke from the CPanel installed 7.6 up to 7.8. I'm pretty familiar with the steps, but I'm hitting a snag with extracting contents of a .zip file using CPanel. Here's what's going on. 1. Installed PHP-Nuke 7.6 using CPanel. 2. Downloaded PHP-Nuke 7.8. 3. Locally modified config.php in 7.8 to match the DB info in 7.6. 4. .zipped the entire contents of the HTML folder and uploaded it to the Nuke home directory. 5. Used CPanel to extract the contents of the .zip file. The problem is, extracting the .zip contents is not overwriting old files, even though I want it to do so. For example, the old config.php is not being replaced with the new config.php. My questions are: 1. Does CPanel by default not replace files when extracting from a .zip file? 2. If the answer to #1 is yes, is there a way around it, short of uploading all files via ftp, which has not been very reliable for me? Thanks for any help. Norm

I just tried the gallery2 install a few minutes ago, and it went very smoothly. Since your problem is happening right when you try to start the install script, I'm wondering if perhaps you had an unsuccessful upload of the gallery2 files. What I did was: 1. Download the .tar file from the gallery2 site. 2. Use FTP to upload the .tar file to my public_html directory. 3. Use CPanel's file manager to extract the contents. As a side note, I typically run into some kind of glitch if I extract to my local computer, and then upload the extracted folders and files. FTP just seems to unreliable for me. I did not need to change any permissions to get the script started...just pointed my browser to the install folder: http://mywebsite.com/gallery2/install Then, the script nicely walked me through the entire process (which involved changing some permissions, adding a folder for images, and setting up a database and user). I found it helpful to keep CPanel and an FTP program open as I went through the install. Hope this helps. Norm Krumpe

Yes, I'm pretty sure you have to start from scratch with the Macromedia tools. There are other tools available for managing photo albums. The free JAlbum is similar to the Macromedia approach, requiring you to start from scratch, but it offers far more flexibility, and I think it is much easier to work with. The free PHP-based Gallery takes some work getting it set up at your site, but once it is there, you can add and delete pictures easily, without needing to start from scratch. Norm Krumpe

I had the very same problem (I have a post elsewhere along the same lines). This may be a workaround: If you installed phpnuke into a subdomain, and wish to access the admin portion (and create a superuser), don't use your subdomain name. In other words, if the location of phpnuke is at subdomain.domain.com, you should be able to get to the admin portion by going to domain.com/subdomain/admin.php It would be nice if you could also get there by using subdomain.domain.com/admin.php but that does not seem to be working. Norm Krumpe

I've tried it both ways. The TCH CPanel script for installing phpnuke doesn't work with a preexisting directory. I've started from scratch a couple times, uninstalling and reinstalling both phpnuke and the subdomain in different orders. I've even installed phpnuke into a folder named csa163, renamed the folder, created the csa163 subdomain, and then moved all of phpnuke into the subdomain folder. It always gives the same results. I've poked around a little in the admin.php file, and found that this is the check that's causing a problem: >if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] != $domainname AND $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] != "localhost") { echo "Access denied"; die(); } It turns out that the value of $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] is my subdomain name, csa163.krumpe.com, but that the value of $domainname is www.krumpe.com. So, I looked a little further...in phpnuke's config.php, $domainname is set to www.krumpe.com. I thought that my problem might be solved by changing that to csa163.krumpe.com. That DID fix the problem...I could now use csa163.krumpe.com/admin.php...but it created some new problems. In particular, I noticed that the "security code" feature of phpnuke stopped working correctly after changing the value of $domainname. So, I'm at a loss over something that really is a pretty minor thing. I just thought I'd run it by people here because it seems like something someone might have come across before. Thanks for your help. Norm Krumpe

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Hello there. I wish to have a subdomain that takes users directly to a phpnuke site. So, I have set up the subdomain and the phpnuke stuff using CPanel. Everything pretty much works as I want it: csa163.krumpe.com takes users to the phpnuke start page. Even csa163.krumpe.com/index.php would take users to the phpnuke start page. However, when I try to go to the admin page, I would LIKE to be able to get there by typing csa163.krumpe.com/admin.php But, when I do, I get an "Access is denied" message from the admin script. However, when I go to the admin page by entering krumpe.com/csa163/admin.php, there is no problem. In other words, either way, I am able to get to the admin.php script, but somehow that script doesn't like it when I try to get there via my subdomain name. Does anyone have any experience with this? Is this something that needs to be modified in phpnuke? Thanks for your help.

Sorry if this post is misplaced (scold me if you must)... Firefox is crashing when using the Live-Chat support link. A session starts, connection is made with support staff, and after a couple communications it shuts down. Maybe a firefox problem, but I don't know.

I gave someone an e-mail address using my domain name. This person sometimes uses NeoMail to send messages. When the user sends an e-mail to a bad address (in this case, a _______@verizon.net address), Verizon kicks the message back, saying that the e-mail address is no good. However, the problem is that the message is "kicked back" to me, rather than to my user. This is kind of a privacy issue, since now I can see the entire contents of the e-mail that the user was sending to someone else. The reason for this seems to be that the "Return Path" in the message sent by the user through NeoMail actually has my TCH main username in it, rather than my user's username. Hopefully, it's clear what I've described above, because now I have a question. How do I fix it so that the Return Path on NeoMail-sent messages will include the user's username, rather than mine? Thanks for your help, Norm Krumpe

Well, looking more carefully, it seems that the user used Neo-Mail to send the e-mail. Could that be related? Here's what the returned message looks like (edited for brevity and privacy, with some highlighting by me). Is this possibly a Neo-Mail configuration issue? Thanks for your help. Norm ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ Return-path: <mymainusername@server16.totalchoicehosting.com> Received: from mymainusername by server16.totalchoicehosting.com with local (Exim 4.24) for xxxx@xxxx.xxx; Tue, 06 Apr 2004 14:41:31 -0400 From: "my dad's name" <mydadsusername@****> To: failed recipient address X-Mailer: NeoMail 1.26 X-IPAddress: 66.202.6.23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <E1BAvVr-00040M-Vg@server16.totalchoicehosting.com>