fanupdate database problems

[kendra326]

I'm trying to install the FanUpdate onto my website dynamic.modernrevolutions.net and I'm having some problems. I was initially confused with the whole setting up a database thing but I finally figured it out, minimally. Anyway, I'm getting this message every time I go to the install page: ERROR: Could not connect to database server. I'm not sure what to do about it. I looked it up on the website I downloaded it from and it said that if I got that message that meant that I had "something incorrect in my database settings", whereas I cannot figure out for the life of me what it could be, I tried creating a new database but I'm still having the same problem. I thought maybe I wasn't putting the variables in correctly, but I can't see what I need to change there if I didn't. I'm just curious to see if anyone could help with this problem or if they've installed FanUpdate and knows anything about how to fix this. Thanks!

[Snookerman]

Could you post a link to your page or attach the code you are using?

[kendra326]

Yeah, my page is http://www.dynamic.modernrevolutions.net

[kendra326]

I'm not sure if this matters but I don't even have FanUpdate on my page yet, I still have another blogging system up displayed right now, CuteNews.

[Snookerman]

Could you post your settings or your variables or anything? It's not easy to find a solution without that.

[kendra326]

Yeah: I took the passwords out, but they're there in the actual file I just didn't want to post that. And also, while trying to figure it out I started to consider the fact that maybe it's because I'm hosted by 1&1 webhosting and that's not what i created my database from. All the tutorials I looked at said, "go to your cpanel" and I can't seem to find it though 1&1 so I'm just really confused. That was probably really confusing, sorry.

// ------------->ADMIN VARIABLES

$fanupdate['admin_username'] = 'kendra';
$fanupdate['admin_password'] = md5('');

// ------------->DATABASE VARIABLES

$fanupdate['dbhost'] = 'localhost';
$fanupdate['dbuser'] = 'a1158673_kendra';
$fanupdate['dbpass'] = '';
$fanupdate['dbname'] = 'a1158673_fan';