The mysql database is by default stored on the computer that run the mysql service If you have a local installation of mysql on your computer it would store the database on your computer.
"I was wondering why I can connect to the server" Which server is this? the database or the webserver? or is it the database you cannot access? "If the user of the account is 'abc' and you make a database named 'willow'" If you can create a database then there shouldn't be any problem accessing the database. "it is made as 'abc_willow' " I must confess that i don't think that i follow you exactly... Do you create a database named WILLOW and it ends up being named ABC_WILLOW - is this correct? That should be a correct behaviour (to avoid name collisions) at a hosting service, i guess... "I do not know where the file is since it is not on my server but a remote one" Is this located at a hosting service? If so - why not ask them?. "Is there a way in SQL or php mysql admin" If you can create any DB on the remote server - then mysql admin should be able to do it too provided that you supply the server/login and password. "to tell it WHERE to put the db file" Only the DB server can be configured to save the DB at different places - so if you have a hosting service then it's up to them. If you run mysql locally you can configure it on your computer - but only for your local DB server. Monty Warhawk wrote: > I was wondering why I can connect to the server, but not to a database. > When I type in the name of it, it cannot find it. I use the templet from > the php site, and a bunch of others, which all do the same thing, but I just > cannot open any of them up. > > If the user of the account is "abc" and you make a database named "willow" , > it is made as "abc_willow" and I try that and just willow and everything I > can think of but not get it. I do not know where the file is since it is > not on my server but a remote one. Is there a way in SQL or php mysql admin > to tell it WHERE to put the db file, if that is my prob. ??? any help would > be nice. This is also on a UNIX server, not windows. > > -Monty > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- Michel Laine Engineer / Network Administrator SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY SWEDEN AB Phone:(+46)-8-982255 Fax:(+46)-8-982060 Snail mail: Vretenvagen 2, 171 54 SOLNA, SWEDEN E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.systemtech.se -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
