PHPbb Install from hell

[swanside]

Can anybody please help on this, I have just created an account on Hostlogical, I uploaded phpBB to the Public_html folder, I log onto my address and go to the install.php page, I leave the settings as they are, except for the Admin Username and Password, and press submit to install, but I get an eror saying
phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database

Do I have to set up a database first, then install phpBB to that database? I got it working ok on Lycos freepages in a few mins, but, I can not get it to work on here?
Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks
Paul.

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

Yes. You must do the following:

1) through DA, create 1 database and 1 username/password for mysql.

2) edit the config script (normally config.php) and setup the host (localhost), database (username_dbname), username (username_user) and password in that file.

3) run the install.php

John