hello Drupal community,
this is my very first post, am trying to install Drupal on my mac machine (i.e., locally, not on a web server..) have later than minimum required versions of Apache, PHP, & MySQL..
of course am running into probs with db... oh brother.. db always a problem.... I should have known....;-)
first, a comment: I think something is not too clear: when it asks for uid/pswd for db it's not clear whether you're supposed to create new uid/pswd for the particular drupal db, or are you supposed to type in uid/pswd you have already for MySQL server? (people often say "db uid/pswd", when in fact it's uid/pswd to conn. to the server, not to a particular db... correct me if I'm wrong.. at any rate b/c of the questions below figured out it's uid/pswd for the server...) maybe instr should just ask for uid/pswd you use to conn. to the server.. I think that would be a bit clearer...
after entering db info, am getting this msg:
Failed to connect to your database server. The server reports the following message: SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES).
Is the database server running? -- of course, I just created the db for drupal ;-)
Does the database exist, and have you entered the correct database name? -- yes