[chrisjb]

Right bascally I downloaded the whole thing again, deleted mine (except my config.php file) uploaded it to my site again and now it seems to work – I’m guessing some of the files didn’t upload the first time. Thans for everyones help.

[chrisjb]

OK I found out that I’m not localhost I’m remotemysqlhost. Other than that everything is right I think, but I still get the same message. Any ideas?

[chrisjb]

I’ve checked in cPanel and I’m pretty sure I’ve got the names right. it autimatically shortened themboy7_bbpress to themboy7bbpres when I created the database.

I’ve contacted my host AN Hosting now, referencing this thread, so hopefully they can resolve the problem.

[chrisjb]

To my knowledge the answers are yes. I’m pretty sure I’ve double checked.

[chrisjb]

the other thing is i get this message when i load the config.php file in my browser:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/themboy7/public_html/forum/config.php on line 40

but if i change my akismet key to false and load config.php i get this message:

Error establishing a database connection

This either means that the username and password information in your config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost.

* Are you sure you have the correct username and password?

* Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?

* Are you sure that the database server is running?

[chrisjb]

Yeah i already renamed it – actually I copied it and changed the name of my copy then edited it:

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘themboy7_bbpres’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘themboy7_tmgforu’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘**********’); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// If your bbPress URL is http://bbpress.example.com/forums/ , the examples would be correct.

// Adjust the domain and path to suit your actual URL.

// Just the domain name; no directories or path. There should be no trailing slash here.

$bb->domain = ‘http://www.themortgageguide.org.uk&#8217;; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com&#8217;

// There should be both a leading and trailing slash here. ‘/’ is fine if the site is in root.

$bb->path = ‘/forum/’; // Example: ‘/forums/’

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘TMG Forum’;

// This must be set before running the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘forum@themortgageguide.org.uk’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = true;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = 30;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = 0;

// Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet’s powerful spam blocking, you’ll need one. You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ***********;