Connecting to a mySQL database

This article applies to Dedicated Servers.

This article explains the configuration values required in order to connect to a mySQL database.

To access mySQL via your web pages, connect to your database using the following credentials:

Username: The account username

Password: The database password

Database: The account username

Server: localhost

Related Support Material:

  1. How do I import a MySQL database with SSH?
  2. How do I update the database password within my configuration file?
  3. How do I find my database hostname?
  4. How do I resolve ‘Error establishing a database connection’?
  5. What is MySQL?
  6. How do I enable or disable MySQL slow query logging?