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PLEASE HELP ME !!!

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 5:20 am
by Spêêd-Rô¢k
I just created an account with coolfreepages which give free PHP and MySQL hosting service.

I downloaded a file from http://www.phpbb.com and uploaded it to http://maniax.iwebland.com/ with the username, password. The SQL Database Name, account name and password was also provided.

I want to know that can a whole board run on a 50 MB HDD space for lifetime ????

Now I want the following details :

1. The phpbb Board ask for Database Type which one should i choose :
MySQL 3.x
MySQL 4.x
PostgreSQL 7.x
My SQL Server 7/2000
MS Access [ODBC]
MS SQL Server [ODBC]

2. The phpbb Board asks for Database Server Hostname / DSN, what should i enter.

3. The phpbb Board asks for Prefix for tables in database, what should i enter.

4. It requires Domain Name, what should i enter.

5. It requires Server Port, what should i enter.

6. It requires Script path, what should i enter.


Please help me with the above information to setup my board.


Thank You.

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 7:21 am
by Peter
From what I can see, CoolFreePages don't offer any kind of database resource. If the did, MySQL would probably be the database type because PHP and MySQL fit together like a hand and glove.

Try this...
  1. MySQL 3.x
  2. localhost
  3. leave as is
  4. leave as is
  5. leave as is
  6. leave as is
:)

thank you very much !!!

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 7:56 am
by Spêêd-Rô¢k
thank you very very much.

i appreciate this help. May god bless you :lol:

thank you

Re: PLEASE HELP ME !!!

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 8:40 am
by jason
Spêêd-Rô¢k wrote:I just created an account with coolfreepages which give free PHP and MySQL hosting service.

I downloaded a file from http://www.phpbb.com and uploaded it to http://maniax.iwebland.com/ with the username, password. The SQL Database Name, account name and password was also provided.

I want to know that can a whole board run on a 50 MB HDD space for lifetime ????
Really depends on how much traffic you get, but lets just say that right now, even this board is well below that limit.
Now I want the following details :

1. The phpbb Board ask for Database Type which one should i choose :
MySQL 3.x
MySQL 4.x
PostgreSQL 7.x
My SQL Server 7/2000
MS Access [ODBC]
MS SQL Server [ODBC]
Welll...you can find that out from a phpinfo page, but I am being nice, the first 1.
2. The phpbb Board asks for Database Server Hostname / DSN, what should i enter.
That would be the host the server is on...again, probably localhost.
3. The phpbb Board asks for Prefix for tables in database, what should i enter.
Whatever you want as the prefix for your tables... You can easily keep it default.
4. It requires Domain Name, what should i enter.
!!! You have to be serious. What is your domain name?
5. It requires Server Port, what should i enter.
Nothing...
6. It requires Script path, what should i enter.
The path to your script as it says in the instructions.

thats ok

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 8:43 am
by Spêêd-Rô¢k
thats cool , very nice of you

but i need to upload a confog.php file to the server. and i have never uploaded or downloaded anything via FTP. so can you upload a single file for me. can i mail you the file. :wink:

please

thank you

Re: thats ok

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 5:42 pm
by Peter
Spêêd-Rô¢k wrote:thats cool , very nice of you

but i need to upload a confog.php file to the server. and i have never uploaded or downloaded anything via FTP. so can you upload a single file for me. can i mail you the file. :wink:

please

thank you
If you got this far, just upload the file like you did the others. ;)