Hi! I'm trying to set up mojoforum a remote hosting account. This account gives me XSP and only one mysql database, which I have already named. I don' have permissions to create the mojoportal database,  but the database I have is completely empty and ready to go.  My question is, can mojoportal be used without the databased being named mojoportal?

I am hosting with grokthis.net. Its a wonderful host, I would recommend it to anybody. He gives you your own instance of apache running as you (not 'nobody'), XSP if you like,  two databases, and will configure mod_python  etc (and you can do your own apache modules) its 14.95 a month.  for the account I just described. I've run into some bugs, but the support has been decent and he's gotten them fixed pretty fast. Very helpful guy.
I can't speak much about the XSP support, because I am just learning it now. But it seems to work, at least the examples.

Thanks for your offer to help.
I ran the first and third scripts in dbScripts, and the database looked good. Then the following line I changed in my Web.conf:

I didn't change other other lines.
I get the following error when I try to view it:

Description: Error processing request.

Error Message: HTTP 500.
Stack Trace:

ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException: Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts
in <0x00158> ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.Driver:Open (ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnectionString)
in <0x0003c> ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlInternalConnection:Open ()
in <0x000ef> ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlPool:CreateNewPooledConnection ()
in <0x00214> ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlPool:GetPooledConnection ()
in <0x00052> ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlPool:GetConnection ()
in <0x00112> ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlPoolManager:GetConnection (ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnectionString)
in <0x0007c> ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnection:Open ()

Any ideas?

hmm. logging into to a shell and typing
mysql -h localhost -u luke_my -p
logs me in to the db... But I'll ask my service provider and make sure.