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MODx Revolution =>
downloaded the advanced package (why? I'll get to that in a sec): http://modx.com/download/downloading/?id=4fa1621bf245545d3b00009d

Following this walkthrough with the precision of a scientist:
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Advanced+Installation

What I'm doing specifically:
----First, I renamed AND moved the /core/ directory to a safer place. Permissions set to 0755 like a boss.
(all permissions within the '<core>' directory also set to 0755 too)

----Poured thermite on the contents of the /core/cache/ directory. There were no survivors; burn in hell.

---mod_core_path stage completed.

----didn't touch the config key

----left advanced options off

----Database options accomplished.

----clicked the "Test database server connection and view collations" jazz.

Connection to db server success!

----character set collation matching utf8s.

----Brace for impact.

----Click "Create or test selection of your database."

"Checking database: MODX could not create your database. Please manually create your database and then try again."

----weep.

Ok MODx, fine. I'll create a database.

----PHPMyAdmin get.

----create database. check. leave contents blank. no tables. just name.

----MODX populate this noise.
--no.

feels bad man.


So. my fellow MODxers, I am at a loss. If I messed anything up, it's anything involved in the PHPMyAdmin step. How does one go about creating a database that MODx will impregnate? I don't want her to be too easy for the 31337haxxors out there to get to but I need her to do her **** job. If MODx won't do it for me, can a man get a walkthrough?

Thanks in advance.


]]> andeqoo Jun 11, 2012, 09:13 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/77184/i-know-i-know-i-ve-read-other-checking-database-modx-could-not-create-your-database-please-manually-create-your-database-and-then-try-again-threads#dis-post-426326 https://forums.modx.com/thread/77184/i-know-i-know-i-ve-read-other-checking-database-modx-could-not-create-your-database-please-manually-create-your-database-and-then-try-again-threads#dis-post-426331 .
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jk.
I made a nu db using a simpler than phpmyadmin program (that was auto installed on my server) to create a new db, and realized that when the server created the other dbs they did so with a prefixed word followed by the name I chose.
That was so dumb.]]> andeqoo Jun 11, 2012, 09:46 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/77184/i-know-i-know-i-ve-read-other-checking-database-modx-could-not-create-your-database-please-manually-create-your-database-and-then-try-again-threads#dis-post-426331 https://forums.modx.com/thread/77184/i-know-i-know-i-ve-read-other-checking-database-modx-could-not-create-your-database-please-manually-create-your-database-and-then-try-again-threads#dis-post-426330 Ohhhhhh god I wanna kill stuff right now.

You know what the solution was?
too bad. You'll never get it.
Struggle.]]> andeqoo Jun 11, 2012, 09:43 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/77184/i-know-i-know-i-ve-read-other-checking-database-modx-could-not-create-your-database-please-manually-create-your-database-and-then-try-again-threads#dis-post-426330