Problems with moving database

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I'm in the process of moving my forum to a new domain. I first installed a fresh copy vB 3.8.2 on the new domain, I set an admin etc... This new forum was grand I made a test thread on it. So I began the process of backing up my existing forum, but discovered I don't have a clue how to do this, so I ask my hosting company as the everything is on my hosting account, ie domains, databases etc...


So they moved everything from my existing database 'old_forum' to the new database 'new_forum'. But this is where I have a problem, when I go to the new forum site address, all I see is a white page, I can see my admincp, but this shows my old forum name in the window beside the vB logo. When I login I get the white page again. I set my server name to 'localhost' and got this error;

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Database error in vBulletin :

mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
/hsphere/local/home/patrickx/mobilephonesolutions.ie/forum/includes/class_core.php on line 311

MySQL Error :
Error Number :
Request Date : Monday, June 15th 2009 @ 11:57:45 PM
Error Date : Monday, June 15th 2009 @ 11:57:45 PM
Script : http://www.mobilephonesolutions.ie/forum/
Referrer :
IP Address : 79.97.1.45
Username :
Classname : vb_database
MySQL Version :
I told my hosting company and they said;

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Good morning Patrick,

I am unable to offer suggestion as to how you should configure your software to talk to the database, although making a connection to localhost is clearly incorrect!

I am not familiar with the configuration of vBulletin, and would suggest as vBulletin is a licensed product, you contact your vendor for technical assistance with making database connections. Suffice it to say, you should be making a database connection to sql5.hosting365.ie, which is the host that serves both of the databases.

If you require further assistance, please feel free to contact us.

Any ideas guys? It's probably something simple

Thanks in advance,

Patrick __DEFINE_LIKE_SHARE__