I have currently got my mediawiki working on my localhost. I now want to move my wiki pages from localhost onto the server (WinSCP), but I can't seem to get it working. I have even tried creating a brand new wiki page but during the installation process, it won't let me connect to the database. Is it possible to have mediawiki working via WinSCP, if so, can you tell the steps I should follow?
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With WinSCP you only transfer the files, correct? All other must be handeld by an webserver. Why you think you can not connect to the database (which database managament system, mysql?)? Have you an error message? If so, what error message?
I am using mysql. When I try to setup mediawiki on WinSCP, in the connecting the database section I get the message DB connection error: Access denied for user 'xxxx'@'localhost' (using password: YES) (localhost).
Check the host, username and password and try again.
Yeah, then you should do this: Check the host, username and password and try again.
The database user, you want to use, is not allowed to access the database you want :) So, check if the spell of the username and password is correct, if the password is correct and if the user has the rights to read/write the database you want to use.
I have tried that already. The host, username and password are the same one which I used when running mediawiki on my localhost
Then the data on your localhost aren't the same as on your server. Please check the data for the mysql server running on the server you transferred the mediawiki installation to.