One time setup

MI GLOBAL

Five steps. Work through them in order and the store is live at the end. Nothing here needs a developer, and nothing you type is stored anywhere except config.php.

  1. 1 Requirements
  2. 2 Database
  3. 3 Schema and data
  4. 4 Administrator
  5. 5 Done

Connect the database.

These five values come from hPanel. Sign in to Hostinger, open Databases, then Management. If you have not created a database yet, create one there first: it takes about thirty seconds and hPanel shows you the name, the user and the password on the same screen.

Type localhost unless hPanel shows a different host.

The MySQL default is 3306.

Copy it exactly from hPanel, prefix included, for example u123456789_miglobal.

Also prefixed, for example u123456789_store.

Type it again after a failed attempt. This page never sends it back to your browser.

Back to requirements

The connection is tried for real before anything is written. If it fails, config.php is left exactly as it was.