Hi folks,
I'm installing XOOPS on a web server to which I have root access. Win 2000.

The empty mySQL database is created automatically by my server control panel when I create the hosting account.

I use http://www.navicat.com to edit the database & permissions. I created a user called username@% and assigned full permissions to the appropriate database.

After trying both the master admin username and password, as well as those of the domain owner, I get the "Could not connect the database server" message.

For Hostname I used "localhost" as well as my server IP.

The rest of the entries are easily verified, and are clearly correct.

Any ideas?

TIA

You might try this standalone test script, to see if you get the same result. Fill in the values for DBHOST, DBUSER and DBPASS.