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    Decided to try out modx.1.0.6. I initially developed my site locally and then tried to migrate it onto the live server. The installation seemed to go smoothly however when I try to access the manager page I get the "Failed to create the database connection!" screen.

    The database info appears to be correct in my config.inc.php file and the site is rendering correctly on the front end (which means that the database is being accessed to retrieve the templates, etc) but I cannot access through manager! I'm going crazy!

    I have tried to do a reinstall/upgrade and have tried changing some permissions to the manager files but I do not seem to be getting anywhere.

    If anybody can provide me some guidance I would really appreciate it. Any other info needed please let me know.


    Thank you!
    Tom


    I tried to find something similar in the forum and did not see anything that had the same problem. If there is already a thread for this kind of error please direct me there
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      Does your db user have full privileges?
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        Quote from: frogabog at Dec 12, 2012, 02:00 PM
        Does your db user have full privileges?

        Thank you for the reply. Yes the db user in the config.inc.php file has full privileges. I am on a shared server so I cannot actually modify server level privileges could it have to do with that?

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          Do you have a ' or ; in your database password, if so try changing it.
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            Quote from: AMDbuilder at Dec 12, 2012, 04:50 PM
            Do you have a ' or ; in your database password, if so try changing it.

            I do not and wouldn't the front end not be displaying correctly if it was a problem with the password, db name, etc... ?
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              I wonder if this has anything to do with the other person who posted that a site duplicated to another server was saving to both databases? Is the database connection information for the manager being cached somewhere?
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