I was installing Magento on one of my commercial sites just to try it out and ran into this installation problem: SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user ......# 'root'@’localhost’ (using password: YES) # Database connection error ... The error message explains itself: there is a database connection issue and it's probably because either your username and / or password don't match or your account doesn't have the privilege for this execution. My question was exactly about that, too. "Why does it try to access MySQL database using the 'root' account? " I'm using shared hosting service from HostGator for this site, and I don't have ...

Looking for a reliable shopping cart When you choose an e-commerce shopping cart, the most important criteria is credit card processors. Credit card processing needs gateway - interface between your site and the processors. Because it doesn't rely on your system solely, it gets more complicated to configure or program it. Also, credit card processors come and go all the time. Therefore, you need to choose a shopping cart that supports enough of the major credit card processors and has an easy configuration to run it. Other important criteria that you should consider when choosing a shopping cart ...