I’m having some trouble on page 2 of the installation, pmachine cannot communicate with my db.

My website is clay.bellmor.com, an offshoot of bellmor.com. I installed the contents of the pmachine folder into the same directory as my site content, which is clay.bellmor.com/pfc/.

I didn’t rename pm, so my config.php looks like this:

localhost="http://clay.bellmor.com/pfc/"
db user name="clay_jinks" note: my cpanel automatically tacks on ‘clay_’ to everything in mysql.
db="clay_pmachine"
db password=...well, that’s private.

When page 2 of the installation loads, it simply states that it cannot connect. I don’t know what to fix… my cpanel is acting weird… loading a page takes a minute or two, literally. But sites hosted on the server load fine… so I don’t know if my server-side programs are in chaos. I don’t actually maintain the server… so I wouldn’t know.

I don’t know if this is enough information to see a problem. I keep thinking my localhost name is incorrect; I’ve installed the contents of pMachine into the /pfc/ directory of clay.bellmor.com… so I figured that http://clay.bellmor.com/pfc/ was correct.

Any help would be great. I was ecstatic to learn pmachine is free. I reviewed it 5 years ago… glad to see it still rocks.

thanks!

-Clayton

UPDATE:
Here’s a note from my cpanel.

Current Databases:
clay_pmachine

Users in pmachine
clay_jinks (Privileges: ALL PRIVILEGES)

Connection Strings
Perl $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:clay_pmachine:localhost”,"clay_jinks","<PASSWORD HERE>");
PHP $dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", “clay_jinks”, “<PASSWORD HERE>") or die (’I cannot connect to the database because: ‘ . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ("clay_pmachine");

The last string, so it seems there is a problem with my mysql…