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Experimenting with EE 2 install on Windows Server 2003.  First stage of install goes ok before error message like the example below appears.  Hosting provider support has offered to help but asked how to obtain the real error message? or details on how to test it?

This is the basic error message by default:

Unable to connect to your database server using the provided settings.

Line Number: 124

I tried the EE Minimum requirements wizard and everything checked out okay using the same SQL database details.

Maybe this error is because I set the system path in ‘index.php’ in the system folder to:
$system_path D:\domains\domainname.com\wwwroot\systemfolder

but anything else I tried there breaks it.

Thanks David

Hello, same here but locally on Xampp (Win7 Professional).

Unable to connect to your database server using the provided settings.
Filename: C:\xampp\htdocs\eetest\system\codeigniter\system\database\DB_driver.php
Line Number: 124

Line #124:

$this->display_error('db_unable_to_connect');

Hi, David.

Have you tried just using

$system_path = './system';

?

Marco, did you run the Server Wizard?

Hello, just ran it:
MySQL (Version 4.1+) support in PHP   required   supported NO
Strange because XAMPP has:
Apache/2.2.14 (Win32)
DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14
OpenSSL/0.9.8l
mod_autoindex_color
PHP/5.3.1 mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1
mod_perl/2.0.4
Perl/v5.10.1

Versione MySQL client: 5.1.41

All other CMS installs I use on my localhost run smoothly.

Marco - teethgrinder,

You may have the recent MySQL Client but what is failing is its support in PHP

Do you the the mysql extension installed in PHP

Hi, David.

Have you tried just using

$system_path = './system';

?

Marco, did you run the Server Wizard?

Hi Sue, no changing it to that results in:

Your system folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: index.php

So I set it back to:

$system_path D:\domains\domainname.com\wwwroot\systemfolder

It works ok until the error message above.  Hosting support are trying to help but with out a proper error message they can not determine the cause of the error.  Please see their response:

Thank you for your email. Yes, this is on Windows Server 2003 (IIS 6), it is MySQL 5.1. All of the requirements listed on that page are met easily.

It could be the path, I’m not sure. The fact that the Server Wizard connects fine shows that the details are correct, so some other error is causing the problem in the setup script, but they are “hiding” the error message so that we can’t see it.

Thanks David

Just a small observation on testing it again.  The first stage of the installation wizard instructions user guide Installation wizard step 4.b Server Settings asks 2 “What type of server are you hosted on?”.  I don’t get that option. Does that make any difference?

David

Marco - teethgrinder,

You may have the recent MySQL Client but what is failing is its support in PHP
Do you the the mysql extension installed in PHP

I deleted the previous dbase and create another one and now it works…  :lol:

David ,

Can I confirm that this is the syntax you used?

$system_path = 'D:\domains\domainname.com\wwwroot\systemfolder ';

The first stage of the installation wizard instructions user guide Installation wizard step 4.b Server Settings asks 2 “What type of server are you hosted on?”.

Where exactly did you see this? In our install docs?

David ,

Can I confirm that this is the syntax you used?

$system_path = 'D:\domains\domainname.com\wwwroot\systemfolder ';

The first stage of the installation wizard instructions user guide Installation wizard step 4.b Server Settings asks 2 “What type of server are you hosted on?”.

Where exactly did you see this? In our install docs?

John,

Yes I saw that in the online user guide:
http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/installation/installation_wizard.html

I tried the above system path syntax both with single and double quotes.  Still no joy getting EE 2 to install.

Thanks David

Hi, Far*. Installing on a Windows server can be tricky. I’m going to escalate this to our dev/testing team. Thanks in advance for your patience.

Hi all,

I run all my test environments on Windows.

Anytime I get this error: “Unable to connect to your database server using the provided settings.” it means that there is something wrong in the system/expressionengine/config/database.php file.

$db['expressionengine']['hostname'] = "127.0.0.1";                  // This can be an ip address or address.
$db['expressionengine']['username'] = "some_username";       // database user's username 
$db['expressionengine']['password'] = "some_password";        // password for database user
$db['expressionengine']['database'] = "dbname";             // Database name the user has access to.
$db['expressionengine']['dbdriver'] = "mysql";          // You will want to make sure you have the correct driver for your database

Can you guys confirm that you have the correct details in your database.php files?

Sincerely,
Barry

It’s now installing ok on Windows Server.  Is it relatively easy to migrate EE2 from Linux to Windows or visa versus?  Thanks David

Glad you are up and running. Feel free to start a new thread if you have anymore questions