On Wed, April 24, 2013 00:16, Joseph wrote: > On 04/23/13 20:10, J. Roeleveld wrote:
<SNIP> >>I am guessing Apache is running on the same machine as your Postgresql >> server? >> >>In this case. The connection will always originate from localhost and >> Postgresql is behaving as it should. >> >>You will need to secure access to the website to avoid people accessing >> it. >> > > Yes, every machine I run has apache on it, so Postgresql server runs on > it as well. > If I'm connecting from another network machine to a server, how does it > originate from localhost? > > Something is not correct. I'll try to explain. When you connect to the website (Apache) the connection Apache sees originates from your machine. When Apache then needs to access PostgreSQL to access the data needed for the website, Postgresql sees the connection originating from Apache, which is running on the same machine. -- Joost
