GoDaddy doesn't allow external connections to MySQL. In order to manage your database, you have to use their (piss poor, IMO) web control panel.
Check out this thread from a while back: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/thread.cfm/threadid:43323 Is that what you mean? Ray > -----Original Message----- > From: Kyle Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 3:53 PM > To: CF-Newbie > Subject: Coldfusion, MySQL, and GoDaddy help > > I have been searching for answer to this problem all day long. I > absolutly cannot figure out how to connect to my MySQL database with > GoDaddy. GoDaddy's Account Manager allows me to automatically create a > DNS which is nice, and it gives me the database name, host name, DNS > name, database user name, and password. What next? I am used to using > the Coldfusion Administrator and MS Access databases. This would be > easy if I could use Dreamweaver to create all this but GoDaddy won't > allow RDS login. If someone could give me some example code for this > that would be great. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Newbie/message.cfm/messageid:2022 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Newbie/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.15
