"This page cannot be displayed" when connecting to MySQL

[UPRJon]

PHP Version: 4.4.1
MySQL Version: 4.1.18
OS: Linux

Run on a dedicated server.
Domain has a dedicated IP.
We use Cpanel.

We are trying to connect to our MySQL database. All PHP functions are working (echo, print, etc.) but when you try to connect to the database you get a "The page Cannot be displayed" message.

All of our info is correct and matching our database. Can it be a problem with conflicting versions of PHP and MySQL?

Any thoughts?

[Houdini]

How are you connecting to the MySQL server, with a script, or through the cPanel itself?

[UPRJon]

with PHP.

[Houdini]

Could you show the script? That might give a few clues as to what is happeneing, or not happening.

[UPRJon]

Its a simple connection script. I don't have the EXACT file, becuase our server was reset, and can't connect to it. But it was like this:

<?
$dbh=mysql_connect("localhost","sparcora_shop","<passwordhere>") or die ("Can not connect to the database");
mysql_select_db("sparcora_shop");
?>

[Houdini]

The script looks fine with the strange fact that the username and the database seem to both be the same, am I wrong in this?

[thorpe]

Turn off 'show friendly error messages' in your browser then post the actual error.