On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.comwrote:
History:
I'm trying to help a friend who is hosting his domain with the same
company that I use. I've been using this company for several years and
have used a certain 'connection' script all the time. Part of it looks
like this:
$host=mysql:host=mydomain.com;dbname=$sc_dbname;charset=utf8;
$uid = uid;
$pswd = pswd;
Try
{
$mysql = new PDO($host,$uid,$pswd,$db_options);
}
.
So - when I tried to provide this template to my friend (who is new to all
of this) we went thru days of emails trying to make sure everything was
setup correctly but could never get a connection using the above code.
Finally last night, after reviewing how my 'old' mysql interface
connection worked, I experimented with the above changing my host= from my
domain name to simply 'localhost'. Voila - it worked for him. It also
worked for my site.
Here's my question: What would make by friend's account not work when
referencing a true domain name in the host= attribute? I'm assuming that
our (shared) provider is setting up his many accounts servers the same
way, but I could be wrong. And of course, I don't have a clue about what
makes any of this work - I simply follow instructions/guidance I get from
manuals and searches until I get things to work. That's how I got his
account to finally work, but I'd love to have an idea why it now does.
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It could be that your MySQL configs -bind-address and skip-networking are
set, so it is not allowing for external connections. My guess (could be
wrong) that using yourdomain.com is the same as making an external call, as
opposed to using localhost (no DNS lookup).
