[ic] Interchange and MySQL

[Jon]

>     Apologies if this is in the mail archives but I haven't been able
> to find any solution from many searches.

Now it will be :)

>
>
> I've now tried this with IC 4.8.6 and 4.9.3 because my hosting
> company decided to perform an upgrade;  that was a nice surprise.
>
> Trying to convert to using MySQL.  I've created a database and user
> and associated the user to the database.
>
> Via the admin UI I've modified the following  as such :
>
> MYSQL 1
> SQLPASS  ThePassword
> SQLDSN    dbi:mysql:db_name   also tried   dbi:mysql:db_name:localhost
> SQLUSER   db_admin
>
> Made sure there wasn't any *.sql files in the products directory.
> Via UI did Apply changes and it simply times out.  Nothing
> in the catalog's error.log either.

    Maybe this will be useful for someone in the future.  It turned out
someone
didn't install DBI.  I thought I saw it in their list of installed Perl
modules.... it was
late and maybe I was seeing things.

Jon