denisb

thanks Degsey. I am using xp and not vista. Can't i just use my file properties box to do the same thing as Filezilla does or cubecart equivalent to change attributes or do you somehow need to generate the filepermission numbers as well.

I am trying to install cc3 on my personal computer in order to smooth out some of the setup that i want to do. I also had the same problems installing cubecart on my host website as i am having with installation on local host on my pc. Only by using fantastico did I get it up and runningon my host site. Now fantastico is not readlily available for a home installation and to be honest I would like to know what I am doing wrong. Assume I have a database named cart, a data base user name root is the following correct. ( i am referring to step 4 of the manual installation) Database Settings Database Hostname: localhost Database Name: root_cart Database Username: root_cart Database Password: Database Prefix: 1 I have checked global.inc <?php $glob['dbdatabase'] = 'root_cart'; $glob['dbhost'] = 'localhost'; $glob['dbpassword'] = ''; $glob['dbprefix'] = ''; $glob['dbusername'] = 'root_cart'; $glob['installed'] = '1'; $glob['rootDir'] = 'C:\\\\wamp\\\\www\\\\cubecart; $glob['rootRel'] = '/cc17/'; $glob['storeURL'] = 'http://localhost/cubecart'; ?> I am using wamp but have also tried xampp . both have similar features and both produced the same error properties. I have used phpMyAdmin to check data files on both systems and they do correspond. But they do appear to be different to guidelines provide with the installation one other thing does the database need to be created before installation begins. I have tried many combos on database username and its associated database. I am sure that this naming of users,databases and joining could be the problem. So please give me a simple explanation of just what to do here. Looking at the forums so many people seem to have this same difficulty ie #1045 error, access denied for user 'root'@'localhost I am sure lots of people are coming unstuck in the nomenclature used on this page. Anyone out there who can help the poor innocent that i am would be greatly appreciated.