Installing PS on Yahoo - Can it be done?

[shawtreatment]

I'm new to PrestaShop and I'm going through the steps to install it and test it on our store which is hosted on Yahoo!. I'm encountering the following problem.

At Step 3, I am attempting to create a new database using MyPHPAdmin, but I get an error #1102 incorrect database name.

Looking for someone with experience setting up with Yahoo as a host. Can it be done? What am I missing? Is there potential conflict since Yahoo has its own store system in place.

I am also having trouble located the php.ini file. It doesn't seem to be in the new PHP folder where I installed PHP.

Thanks for any help...

[rocky]

I don't think PrestaShop works with Yahoo! since they use PHP 4 and don't offer a PHP 5 option, which PrestaShop requires. Unless this has changed recently, I don't think you'll be able to get PrestaShop to work.

[shawtreatment]

Thanks for the quick reply Rocky.

Actually, Yahoo just began offering PHP 5. I did the upgrade but no luck. I should have mentioned that. Apologies.

This actually all comes at a good time as I am looking at switching to GoDaddy. However, if anyone does have experience with Yahoo...

[MrBaseball34]

Were you aware that you needed to create the database BEFORE running the install?

The install only creates the tables.

It should be modified to also create the DB if it doesn't exist but then you have to know
that the dbuser has Create privileges.