I had everything setup and working very well until I got caught in a blizzard in Lake Tahoe!

I somehow changed the database password through my hosting company. Now I get an error message that says "Unable to connect to database" because the MySQL password that I originally set up when installing XOOPS no longer matches the the new password that my hosting company automatically generated for me. I have no idea what that original password was nor does my hosting company.

How do I get back to the setup page in XOOPS so that I can change the database password I originally setup to the new password that my hosting company generated for me without loosing everything that I have entered onto my site?

I blame the blizzard for this but in actuality, I just pushed the wrong button!

Thanx

open mainfile.php and change it there. about halfway down, you can't miss the db settings.

BOL

Thanx for the help!

Here's the new error that I got when I changed the password:

Error: Smarty error: unable to write to $compile_dir '/templates_c'. Be sure $compile_dir is writable by the web server user.

What does this mean?

it means you need to chmod templates_c to 777

AHAAA!