Re: Drupal Configuration

[Richard Ibbotson <richard.ibbotson%gmail.com@localhost>]

Peter
 
> How are you telling Drupal to connect? MySQL makes a difference
>  between "localhost" and "127.0.0.1" (which is totally bogus).
>  localhost means "connection through the socket" and 127.0.0.1
>  means "connection through the network interface lo0".

Im telling Drupal to connect as localhost but I've also tried 
127.0.0.1.  Still doesn't connect.

> Does the user you're connecting as have access to the drupal
>  database? Did you perform the grant  for <username>@localhost or
> <username>@127.0.0.1?  This should match the connection method.

It was grant for <username>@localhost.  Maybe I should try 
<username>@127.0.0.1.  Maybe I'm being a slow at something here ?


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Richard