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Dear atrol,
I know you're trying to help, but you are being adamant. Sorry, but you keep asking the same "detailed step-by-step" question for something which is one step and failing in the first step. I have repeatedly replied to your request for step-by-step instructions in several ways and give ...

I did a fresh download and unzip.
I set all the folders and files to 777.

There is no database created.

I used root (superuser) for the database as well as admin.
It still gives me the same error.

I used your link but that did not solve my problem.

At this time, I'm about to give up. This is ...

But the problem is not in the creation of the database, unless you advise me so. It's in the admin section. There is nothing else I'm doing other than running the install php script. What else do you expect me to recreate?

Also, why does it not simply create the sql statements so I can run them on ...

I reused the old copy of config_defaults_inc.php which was backed up. It has these settings
$g_hostname = 'localhost';
$g_db_username = 'root';
$g_db_password = '';
$g_database_name = 'bugtracker';
$g_db_schema = '';
$g_db_type = 'mysql';

the entire Mantis folder and ALL subfolders under it ...

Because it did not work even before I changed it

Thanks for the reply. Here are the versions
* Mantis 1.2.19 (downloaded yesterday)
* MySQL
+-------------------------+------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+-------------------------+------------------------------+
| innodb_version | 5.6.22 |
| protocol_version | 10 |
| slave ...

I'm sorry, hostname is "localhost"

Hi.
I have spent hours trying to figure out the installation and have still not succeeded.

I'm getting the famous Mantis error
Attempting to connect to database as admin BAD. Does administrative user have access to the database? ( No such file or directory )

These are the values I'm using.
Type ...