Hello Josh,

First, I'd like to commend you. As a first time visitor from another community, it was nice to get some attention and feedback right away. Kudos.

My status quo is this:

I am using the Install Guide for Unix Servers provided by infopop.

http://www.infopop.com/support/ubbthreads/UBBThreads_Unix_install.html

I successfully completed everything up through Page 5, Number 7, Step 2.

At my Host, the mysql server has been activated, named and the user info set. Time has passed and thats all up and running. My Host also tells me they had no problems with anything when he tested it today.

I passed step one of the ' Run "install.php" with flying colors...no problems.

Step 2 where it asks for:

1. Database server:
2. Database user:
3. Database password:
4. Tablename prefix:

I put:

1. Left it localhost because the db server and site are the same.

2. I put the name of the db that I assigend it when I actived the db at my Host (www.dreamhost.com)
3. User name

4.Password...

and I've tried lost of different entries using the advice of a fair amount of people that thought they could help, but I keep getting:

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Here we are checking your database connectivity and permissions. If any of these checks fail you will need to correct the errors in order to proceed.

Connecting to server FAILED
Connecting to database FAILED

One or more of the above checks failed. Click the button below to return to the previous screen to verify your settings.
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">You sunk my battleship!

If you have any advice, I'd be real thankful about now...