Now, once you have uploaded your osCommerce files, you need to create a database and give an administrator access via a password. There are a number of ways this can be done in, so I will demonstrate on the demo site’s hosting package one of the ways for creating a database for our store. Hopefully the process you follow will be quite similar. If you get stuck, get help from your host’s support team; that’s what they are there for.
The demo site has an interface for MySQL database creation, like this (you might find that your host provides something quite similar):
Entering a database name and clicking Add Db brings up a confirmation page. Now we have a database to work with, so we’re getting somewhere. Of course, we need to specify a user for this database. The following user is created and then added to the commercedb
database:
For the purposes of installing the database, we will use the oscdb
user that we added to the newly create database. You’re free to choose...