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• Started 1 year ago by condos
• Latest reply from chrishajer
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cannot start installer

1. • 
   • condos
   • Member

   • Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello

   I uploaded, then uncompressed. bbpress is now in folder

   http://www.site.com/forum

   when i go to the above i get the message

   ERROR: Could not establish a database connection

   any ideas?
2. • 
   • Loader
   • Member

   • Posted 1 year ago #

   delete bb-config.php and reupload bb-config-sample.php
3. • 
   • chrishajer
   • Moderator

   • Posted 1 year ago #

   Chances are you did not set you database host. It's hidden at the end of the database settings as an "advanced setting". So, after you enter the database name, database user and password, tick the box and find the database host, and enter your host name there. If you don't enter something there, bbPress looks on localhost. If your database is not located there, it won't work.

   Do you have a database host setting to enter?

   EDIT: it seems sort of weird that you are getting this error now before having started the installation. Did you edit the bb-config.php manually before going to that URL? Or was there forum software installed here before?

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