MAMP & Dreamweaver MX

[tomyknoker]

Hi all,

I am trying to connect my database I created using MAMP to Dreamweaver MX is anyone familiar with the settings I would need to use in Dreamweaver to make a testing server and then connect to the database?

Thanks,
Tom

[djr33]

I don't think that dreamweaver works with a database. You'd make your php (or other) page in DW, then view and that would be what connects, not DW.
I think, anyway. That's how it works with mysql.

[tomyknoker]

In Dreamweaver I can select a testing server and also make a database connection... but can't seem to make that connection... i use localhost <username>root <password>root... still no go

[djr33]

I wouldn't know, then. didn't realize it had db integration.
maybe localhost is wrong.
never tried to connect with dw myself, so can't really help, sorry.

[Twey]

Shouldn't be logging in as root.

Are you sure that your password is right? If it is, it shouldn't be; that's a really stupid password, especially for the root account.

[djr33]

Well... it's just on his local machine. But, yeah.
Maybe you're just giving us an example?

[Twey]

Doesn't matter... it's open to the Internet, unless s/he's behind a firewall; even if s/he is, it'll make his/her machine more vulnerable in the possibility that somebody does get past that firewall.

[djr33]

Sure, but I figure once someone's one my computer, there's a lot more important stuff I wouldn't want people getting than the contents of a database. Then again, this database might contain something particularly special.
Either way, though, I'd agree changing it doesn't hurt and probably helps.

[Twey]

Getting past a firewall doesn't always equal gaining access to a computer If someone were, for example, to gain access to another machine on the network, it would leave the Mac open.

[djr33]

Eh, that's true. I'm assuming tomy didn't give us his password, though. Right? Help us end this cycle