Question

How does Drupal 6 connect to a database? I’m use to Drupal 7 having a setting.php file that asked for the database name, the user and the password but Drupal 6 setting.php file is completely different.

Answer 1

You need to set the $db_url variable in the settings.php file for the site.

Example

// mysql://username[:password]@hostname[:port]/databasename
$db_url = 'mysql://root@localhost/testdrupal';