For the past 12 years I've been running a small non-profit that sells art and crafts created by prisoners (www.prisonart.org). I recently suffered a hardware failure and am now in the process rebuilding the site. This is a new install using Zen Cart 1.5 on a Windows Small Business Server 2011, which is located in my home.
PHP 5.3.8 and MySQL 5.5.19 are installed and configured correctly. When I run the Zen Cart install setup feature, however, I get an error on the database connection page. Here are some of the error messages I receive (depending on the value I enter for the host server, database or user name):
1. Connection to Database failed. A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.
2. Connection to Database failed. No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
3. Connection to Database failed. Access denied for user 'Edward'@'localhost' (using password: YES).
4. Database does not exist. Unknown database 'zencart'
5. Connection to Database failed. php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known.
I am totally stumped as to why I cannot connect to the database, which is running just fine. Any ideas?
Ed