On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:35:22PM -0400, Lee Sargent wrote: : Eugene wrote: : > : > 2) Make sure osCommerce is configured with the correct settings to : > access MySQL, i.e. hostname ("localhost"?), database name, the MySQL : > username and password. : : Now I am hosting this web site locally In the documents folder of apache. : : When I start the install.php file for oscommerce, I don't import a database : so I unselect that option and I select save configuration. : : The next page configures itself WWW address ( http://127.0.0.1/catalog/ ), : Webserver root directory ( /library/webserver/documents/catalog ), http : cookie domain ( 127.0.0.1 and http cookie path ( /catalog/ ) : : I don't change any of that and so I contine on to the next page and I this : is where I am currently confused. : : It asks for the Database Server the options for that are hostname or : Ip address. Then comes the username, password, database name and : session storage options. : : This is where I must have to have a database. Do I make the database : use Filemaker Pro 6? What about this host name or IP address. Where : do I put this database once I have created it? There's no reason to even mention Filemaker Pro, since you are trying to get MySQL working. Since MySQL is local, the hostname is "localhost". To create a user account, do something like this in the MySQL command line interface: shell> mysql --user=root mysql mysql> GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,DROP -> ON dbname.* -> TO 'username'@'localhost' -> IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; where "dbname", "username", and "password" are yours to invent. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Adding_users.html Then create database itself: mysql> CREATE DATABASE dbname; Sidenote: setting up MySQL and osCommerce is *not* a newbies question! -- Eugene Lee http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/