Posted by greasydan on 07/25/06 11:41

Richard Hulbert wrote:

> Have you ever connected to this DB? When you connect to mySQL it checks
> to see where the request is comming from. lets say that your mySQL
> server is on the same machine as your php pages that are trying to
> connect to it. SERVER = localhost or 127.0.0.1 if your connection has
> those privelliges then all well and good you can connect however if you
> try to connect to the same server from another machine the you will get
> rejected. you can make as many connections as you like so you could
> make another connection for that machine that specifies that it is
> comming form another machine.
>
> Richard

Hi Richard,

I am able to connect from the command line to the db on the windows
box, just not via mysql_connect() on the php pages.

eg:

mysql --host=SERVER -u USER -p
works like a dream

BUT

$db = mysql_connect("SERVER", "USER", "PASSWORD")
or die("Could not connect to database:
".mysql_error());

gives me:

Could not connect to database: Can't connect to MySQL server on
'SERVER' (13)

Cheers
Dan

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