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Connections problems (phpbb)



Posted by: sabillondesigns
September 22, 2010 06:38PM
I'm trying to install phpbb3 locally but in the installation process where I enter the database settings I get this error:

Could not connect to the database, see error message below.
A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.


Not sure why is not working, I already created the "test" database.

This is how I have it filled out:
Database Type: MySQL with MySQLi Extension (i don't have the MySQL 4.x/5.x option)
Database server hostname or DSN: localhost
Database server port: 80
Database name: test
Database username: root
Database password: (this is blank)
prefix: phpbb_


please help.

thanks!
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Posted by: Amour
September 23, 2010 09:24AM
Instead of use localhost, can you try with 127.0.0.1 ?
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Posted by: sabillondesigns
September 23, 2010 07:49PM
I tried that and now it gives me this error:

Could not connect to the database, see error message below.
MySQL server has gone away


thanks for the help!
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Posted by: Amour
September 24, 2010 10:15AM
Can you try to run EasyPHP as Administrator, or servers as Service ?
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