phi11ip Posted January 18, 2003 Share Posted January 18, 2003 There\'s no way I can link to the Lycos MySQL databse from another host so I was wondering if there is a site or something that offers a FREE MySQL database that will allow me to use for a forum on a site hosted elsewhere... I can\'t find any and my host doesn\'t support them.. Any help will be greatly appreciated... - - - - - - - Firstly, yes I know nothing about PHP, MySQL... I\'ve got a forum uploaded to my domain webspace but my host doesn\'t support databases, meaning it will be rather difficult to get a forum that requires MySQL to work! I have however found out that my Lycos/Tripod webspace allows me a MySQL table and after testing it all out, It all works on my Lycos webspace... Here\'s the question, how would I remotely link to the database on Lycos from my other webspace? The host for Lycos would normally be \'localhost\' but this obviously won\'t work if the forum is hosted somewhere else... What would I have to specify the host as? If you can help, thanks, if you can\'t help, you probably still know more than me! Thanks, phi11ip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalblend Posted January 18, 2003 Share Posted January 18, 2003 This is a complete guess, but have you tried connecting to \"www.lycos.com\" ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phi11ip Posted January 18, 2003 Author Share Posted January 18, 2003 I was thinking of that... I\'ve got to dial up though to change stuff... I\'m gonna give it a go in a minute... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phi11ip Posted January 18, 2003 Author Share Posted January 18, 2003 I\'ve tried most Lycos entries but I can\'t get it to work... http://members.lycos.co.uk/username http://members.lycos.co.uk/ http://tripod.lycos.co.uk/ I can\'t get it to work... The other details are fine, it\'s just this one I cant get! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakepeg Posted January 19, 2003 Share Posted January 19, 2003 If it is not in the support doc\'s / faq then I would email support as it could be anything, and you have tried the obvious with no joy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phi11ip Posted January 22, 2003 Author Share Posted January 22, 2003 I\'ve looked around but had no luck, does anybody know of any site that offer a free MySQL database that I can use for forums on another site or am I just stuffed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewBacca Posted January 30, 2003 Share Posted January 30, 2003 I use www.freesql.org they are having problems at the moment, but there are very rare and if there do happen its working again very soon. it also has a phpmyadmin page so that you can access you database abd add/edit it. sometimes it runs slow, but you cant expect very much for a free services. it hosts I think its about 15000 database so I would say that others like it including me, and its the only one that ive found that surports external hosts unlike lycos who only give you \"localhost\" for the host name. anyway theres one for ya Andrew :mrgreen: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCEmpire.net Posted March 16, 2003 Share Posted March 16, 2003 when u get it working it might be a good idea to keep in mind that not all forums let u host from a lycos server. i no that invisionboard does (theres a value in conf_global.php) just thought i\'d say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamG Posted March 16, 2003 Share Posted March 16, 2003 I\'ve heard of this but never actually tried them: http://f2o.org/. They have FREE PHP, MySQL, CFM, ASP and almost any other server-side language. And, NO ADS!!! HTH, LiamG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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