We need to setup a forum for an upcoming event in college. I tought I would create my own server and use my computer as the server to play around with 'phpBB' (Msg Board Software).

I dowloaded Apache2, PHP 4.3.10 and MySQL 4.1 and I am running XP Prof.

Apache running... check!
PHP running... check!
MySQL running... check!

I copy-pasted the phpBB files to a sub folder in the htdocs folder and ran the installation.


However it didn't complete giving me an error: 'phpBB Critical error' 'Could not connect to database' (newline). I tried the same process with IPB 1.3 for experiment sake. It gave a better error:

Warning!

The following errors must be rectified before continuing!
Please go back and try again!

Could not create a mySQL connection, please check the SQL values entered




I think PHP cannot find the path to the db or I haven't set some required settings. I just installed MySQL using the Windows Installer and didn't do anything extra, although I changed some settings in Apache and PHP as required.

Please help