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I have a problem with settings.php file. I want all user with an account can access to mysql db with their some one username and password and not with a common account with all privileges on drupal DB as specified by default in settings.php.
I made a different database and I set only "SELECT" privileges on this. Now, my problem is this:

In settings.php I set:

global $user;
$db_url['default'] = 'mysql://xxx:xxx@localhost/drupal';
$db_url['mydb'] = "mysql://$user->name:$user->pass@localhost/mydb";

Hello everybody,

This is actually not a problem, because the site is allready up and running, but...
(situation Linux hosting, php, don't know which webserver)

When I bought the webspace, the .htaccess file had to be installed by helpdesk people, so I decided to not ask them at that time.
Now, the site is running, but do anybody know if the file is necessary for security/other issues? So if this is the case, will the something change if I ask them to install the default .htaccess file?

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Sourceforge.net who hosts my OpenSource project and its website upgraded their MySQL engine to 4.1 and are forcing everyone to migrate their data. I did a little digging on drupal site and basically found out that normal mysqldump into a mysql client for a pure copy works fine. It took me just a few minutes to execute and change the config files and I'm running off of new database.

This is what I did:

1) Created the new sourceforge.net database accounts. This is done through SF.net admin pages for my project.