Hello Everyone in Grandworld of Drupal,
Its time for me to learn more about php and connecting to my database.
So this is it.
I am moving a number of my sites to another server that is in my country.
This server is very security minded which is a good thing of course.
I have done the general Drupal install and I cannot connect to the database and I get the unsupported database type banner when I go to site I am currently
working on which is http://nikinpink.com
The server says they have agreat number of accounts using Drupal but are not sure how they are connecting to their database.
So i am reading this below note from them:
Please make it a bit more clear if the drupal is going to use the db_url : mysql://nikinpink:password@mysql9.servage.net/nikinpink instead of actual coonection to the database. I have checked your account and could not find any such settings using which it can connect to the database.
Please note that due to security considerations we do not allow connections to our mysql server from outside our network. If we did allow this the security of our systems would be affected.
Once you create a database using there system they offer a small php sample how to connect to the database as shown below
$connection = mysql_connect("mysql9.servage.net","nikinpink","password");
mysql_select_db("nikinpink", $connection);