Cannot connect to mysql server

[BobHarbison]

I get the following error on step 2.

I cannot connect to the PhotoPost MySQL server. [host:$host][mysql_user:$mysql_user][mysql_password:$mysql_password]. Check your config-inc.php for the correct settings and rerun.

Well of course it can't connect with those settings... My question is why it's not showing the settings that are in the config-inc.php file instead of what appear to be the string names?

Permission problem? Config-inc.php is set to 777 and when I ftp to the site it has made the changes I set in step 1.

I'm confused... I've done so many of these now you'd think I could get past step 2...

[BobHarbison]

Went back to the database setup and deleted and re-installed the database, this time it works. Still not sure why the actual user name and password didn't show in the error though.

[Chuck S]

Yeah errors like that are always the username or password not being assigned yet to a database on the server end.