Installing VBulletin

[Instigator]

i'm in the process of installing vbulletin for the first time... i'm getting this error message as i try to connect to my database while installing...

Warning: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO) in /home/fatal/www/upload/admin/db_mysql.php on line 34

Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO) in /home/fatal/www/upload/admin/db_mysql.php on line 34

Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/fatal/www/upload/admin/db_mysql.php on line 47

what should i do?

[DrkFusion]

Do you have access to the database via the username of root and the password?

[Steve Machol]

This error means either:

1. One or more of the following is wrong in your config.php file:

$dbusername
$dbpassword
$dbname

If you are unsure of what the appropriate values are then you will need to ask your web host.

2. Or that this db user is not assigned to that database or does not have permission to access MySQL to create a database. You may need to first manually create the database and assign the db user to it. Since each web host is different, if you do not know how to do this then contact your web host for help.