Question

I have a Joomla website that works perfectly on localhost.

But I have problem when I try to upload it to online location.

I chose byethost because my boss told that’s the hosting to use.

Now, I upload entire joomla website folder using FTP protocol application (FileZilla).
And then I have to create a database under specific name that always has pre-defined prefix. I believe that’s what bothers me. The name of my database that I export using phpMyAdmin is melodija, but when I create new mySql database online (on a byethost server) I get some weird name like b23_4343_melodija and when I import my existing database in it, the FAIL happens.
“Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL”

What should I do?

Answer 1

This is becouse your configuration problems in the configuration.php file in the root web directory

in the configuration file check this part

var $dbtype = 'mysql';
    var $host = 'localhost';
    var $user = 'root';
    var $db = 'wccms_db';
    var $dbprefix = 'jos_';

make sure that you have entered the valid information as your hosting provider provided you

as u indecated the database name b23_4343_melodija (this may be as your hosting account userdetails name is generated coz the Mysql server is a shared server )