Cannot connect my Joomla to the MySQL Database

TopRobRoy · Post by **TopRobRoy** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 12:46 am

Hi

I wonder if there is a reason why I can't connect to my SQL Database. I've recently uploaded it and am Configuring it. The database is there and called imagine, but I'm getting an error message that says "Undefined Index Query String in /hermes/bosweb/web26u4/b2463/ipg.buyatimeshareorg/imagine/libraries/joomla/environment/uri.php line 142

Its Vers 1.6.3 and my Domain points to www.canuimagine.org.uk/imagine

Thanks
Robert

RussW · Post by **RussW** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 2:29 am

do you have the correct database name configured in the configuration.php, some host prefix the dB names that you enter with your hosting account name also.

Did all the Joomla! files upload to the server correctly?

If you search the forum, you will find many other posts on this and similar topics with many different idea's of things to try.

TopRobRoy · Post by **TopRobRoy** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:34 am

Thanks. Is the file that is in the Installation Directory called configuration.php-dist
Maybe this needs to be told somewhere in it, that the directory for the install should be \imagine and this is a directory off the root.?

RussW · Post by **RussW** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:49 am

no, that is an example file, when you ran the Joomla! installer, you would have entered a bunch of information, that would have been entered in to a new file named configuration.php (in the "/" folder. same place the Joomla! index.php is) If the installer couldn't make this file for you, it would have given you instructions on how to make it and given you all the information to copy in to it.

RussW · Post by **RussW** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:51 am

from what i can see from your URL, you haven't installed Joomla! yet.... ( http://docs.joomla.org/Beginners )

and maybe, when you FTP'd all the files to the server, some got corrupted, re-FTP all the files back up to the server, ensuring over-write existing files is set.

TopRobRoy · Post by **TopRobRoy** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:29 pm

My host company just wrote and said they've completed it for me.
Well, great, but when I now go to www.canuimagine.org.uk and I put in the admin and password he gave me, I can't do anything at all. I would have thought I should be seeing an Admin Panel.
This is all weird! Does anyone know why.??

Is it to do with the fact that I've already got another joomla site! Thats at www.holidayauctions.org.uk and this was set up for me. I want to try and do this other one on my own.

Thanks

TopRobRoy · Post by **TopRobRoy** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:58 pm

Whoa...I found the admin Module now. Sorry about that.
I'll get off now and start learning, and search the forums for help when I'm stuck.
Ciao!

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