In phpmyadmin, 'No Privileges' is showing, does this mean I have to contact the host company to allow privileges before creating a data base?

This post has been edited by Jacob.R: Oct 30 2008, 05:12 AM

Jacob, what sort of control panel do you use with your hosting company? Plesk, or cPanel, or something else?

It sounds like you may need to ask your hosting company for some assistance getting the database going.

Generally through cPanel, when you log into phpmyadmin, your cpanel user id does not have any privileges. You need to go in through cPanel -> databases and create a database and database user.

This, of course, is assuming you are using cPanel.

My host says, "You should use your current database for it - capoeiracanal and it should create all the needed tables there.. "

This post has been edited by Jacob.R: Oct 30 2008, 05:43 AM

So it is cPanel you're using or another hosting control panel?

If you're trying to get Magento to install, have you entered your hosting username and password in as database user and password? Then use capoeiracanal as the database name.

Does this help?

It helps a little. It doesn't say what hosting CP you're using but it does say that your hosting account is only allowed one database. You would have full privileges on the capoeiracanal database.

All you need to do is use whatever username and password you used to log into phpmyadmin as the username and password for the database details in Magento.

Hi Rakuli, I have not downloaded Magento yet, I will do so, then try and set the permissions. After that I will go to the the Magento installation wizard located here: www.mysite/magento/

Does this seem right?

This post has been edited by Jacob.R: Oct 30 2008, 06:08 AM

I haven't used Magento myself but that sounds like a good plan.

Host says, "we are not using any web based administrative panel for server services at the moment"

Jacob, just loked at your screenshot. You will need to click on your capoeiracanal database (listed on the left side), then select all the tables it already has there from the osCommerce install and delete them, otherwise you may get conflicts when installing Magento (maybe not, but better to be safe).

Thanks japh, that's done.

Great work! Now I'd recommend you download a copy of Magento, and follow the user installation guide carefully

It's Taking ages to upload!


I am confused about the permissions. Should my host's server set them or should I do that in the files?

Taken from Magento install:

4. The top-level Magento directory (the one you uploaded the decompressed files to) must have the correct permissions in order for the installer to proceed. To do so, navigate to the directory with your FTP client. Then locate the function “Change Permissions” or “Change Mode” in your FTP client and select it. Once you find the function, you must set the permissions so the web server can write to this file. There are two typical ways of representing file permissions in Linux:

*
As a number (eg, 755)
*
As a series of permissions categorized into user, group, and other

If your FTP client uses the first representation, set the permissions on the directory to be 777, or 0777.

This post has been edited by Jacob.R: Oct 30 2008, 09:56 AM

Please explain more, where do I enter the hosting username and password?

Magento is uploaded on the server

Permissions are set

I have a database created for it but it is empty, where do I go from here?

I always wanted to say this: Read the manual!

There has to be a document or a link to an online manual for Magento.. Follow the steps on installing Magento in there and your database should be filled after the install..

Oh, look what I found!

Jacob, it looks to me like you're up to step 6 of this part of the guide: Default Install

japh, no I am stuck on step 4, I see the directories that are meant to be given new permissions, but can't locate the function “Change Permissions” or “Change Mode” in Macromedia.

This post has been edited by Jacob.R: Oct 30 2008, 06:51 PM

Go to remote view, and right-click on the appropriate directory, then you want "Set permissions...", I believe