Installation problems for a noob

Hi, I’m having problems installing Modx for the first time. I’ve uploaded all of the files to my server (through Bluehost) and edited the permissions as instructed. When I navigate to the installation doc on the server and try to test the db connection, it fails!

I’ve set up the db ahead of time through cPanel as "modx". I’m wondering if I’m entering in the table prefix incorrectly? it’s basically a prefix with an underscore that was amended to the front of my db when it was created.

For example:

Database name: modx
Database prefix: cutyourc_

Database host: localhost
username:
password:

Basically, the installation keeps telling me the test connection is failing and it won’t continue with the installation.

Here’s my system particulars:

Web Server:

* PHP version: 4.4.6
* Apache: 1.3.37 (Unix)
* Operating System : Linux
Database:

* MySQL version: 4.1.21-standard-log

MODx:

* Version: 0.9.5

Browser/Client:

* Firefox 2.0
* XP

Many Thanks!

cPanel adds your cPanel username as a prefix to db name, for example if u created a db named "modx" its actually "username_modx" .. try it.

.. and dont confuse the table prefix with db name prefix, both are different.

regards.

Thanks a million!

Sweet!