Could not connect to PhotoPost database for 4.8.5 upgrade

[adigicam]

I tried to upgrade from 4.8.2 to 4.8.5 with both VB & PP in same DB

but I get this :
Preparing to update 4.8.2 database...
Could not connect to PhotoPost database

I followed the instructions but it's not working in first step.

what I'm doing wrong?

[Chuck S]

Are you running the upgrade from the main Photopost directory?

This is pretty absolute in the upgrade file

$link = mysql_connect("$host", "$mysql_user", "$mysql_password") or die('I cannot connect to the PhotoPost database. [host:$host][mysql_user:$mysql_user][mysql_password:$mysql_password]');
mysql_select_db ("$database", $link)or die("Could not connect to PhotoPost database");

and then this in the config file

//**************** MySQL Database Configuration ****************//
// PhotoPost database host address, or leave as localhost
$host="localhost";

// PhotoPost's database name
$database="photopost";

// MySQL username and password to access PhotoPost's database
//
// These two variables are for the userid and password needed to access
// the PhotoPost database named above.
$mysql_user="root";
$mysql_password="";

as long as you have the proper information in there you should be fine.

[ConqSoft]

And make sure you leave your OLD config file out there for the upgrade, not a modified new config file.