Re: mysql_connect does not connect

Hey, i understand that, :) however, a firewall may restrict _any_ access to a port, and if you are connected thru TCP/IP, then that port may be restricted even if 'local'. It is still a client server relationship regardless where client and server reside. Of coarse, this may not be the issue he is having, but it is an issue i have dealt with before, as retarded as you all seem to think it is. Jason John Nichel <john@kegworks.com> wrote: > > Jason Davidson wrote: > > The webpage of coarse, is not local, regardless of where its hosted, so > > a firewall will come into play when trying to connect. > > You dont have disable it, i should have been specifc i suppose, you must > > allow for the mysql port to be open. :) > > Whats for others to confirm, try it yourself and see if it works. > > > > Jason > > You understanding of how this works is a bit off Jason. If you make a > call to one of my web sites from your machine via a browser, the _only_ > port I need to have open to the outside is 80 (or whatever port I have > my web server running on), even if I make 1000 calls to a local db, but > this has nothing to do with how the web server talks to MySQL. What is > meant by local here, is that the MySQL db and web server are on the same > machine. A firewall comes into play when your web browser requests a > page from my web server, but does not come into play when that page has > to connect to a local db before sending content to you. Your remote > machine never talks to my local MySQL db. > > -- > John C. Nichel > ÜberGeek > KegWorks.com > 716.856.9675 > john@kegworks.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >