> On Aug 24, 2019, at 4:42 PM, Howard Wells <mr...@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have three servers behind a load balancer and a fourth server solely for
> Postgres 10 database that is not behind the load balancer. All four are
> behind the same firewall, with port 5432 open.
>
> I have a simple browser-based html form to submit email addresses, usernames
> and passwords; the form submits through a jQuery program that calls a php
> program.
>
> I can navigate the browser to the IP address of the server that hosts the
> Postgres database and submit records to the database with no problems. When
> I navigate to the site's URL (which goes through the load balancer), I always
> get "SQLSTATE[08006] [7] timeout expired" after a short delay -- in other
> words, no connection.
>
> The php program is very simple:
>
> <?php
> echo 'Hello ' . htmlspecialchars($_POST["firstname"]) . '!' ;
> echo PHP_EOL;
>
> $dsn = vsprintf('pgsql:host=%s;port=%s;dbname=%s;user=%s;password=%s', [
> 'host' => 'xxx.xx.xx.xx',
> 'port' => '5432',
> 'dbname' => '[DBNAME]',
> 'user' => '[USERNAME]',
> 'password' => '[PASSWORD]',
> ]);
>
> echo 'HTTP Referer ' . $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
> echo PHP_EOL;
>
> echo 'IP Address ' . $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
> echo PHP_EOL;
>
> try{
> // create a PostgreSQL database connection
>
> echo "I'm here now";
> echo PHP_EOL;
>
> //ini_set("default_socket_timeout", 300);
> $pdo = new PDO($dsn);
> $pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_TIMEOUT, 300);
>
> // display a message if connected to the PostgreSQL successfully
> if($pdo){
> echo "Connected to the database successfully!";
> echo PHP_EOL;
> }
> }catch (PDOException $e){
> // report error message
> echo $e->getMessage();
> exit();
> }
>
> $pdo = null;
>
> ?>
>
> The echo messages are simply debugging progress messages for the browser's
> dev console.
>
> The pg_hba.conf has these lines enabled:
>
> pg_hba.conf:
> host all [username] 0.0.0.0/0 trust
> host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5
> host all all ::/0 md5
> host all all all md5
>
> The $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]; line shown in my PHP program above always comes
> back with the address of the load balancer.
>
> I'm new to Postgres, so any help with this connection problem will be very
> appreciated. Thanks a lot.
>
>
Which load balancer and what are its configs?
Is this strictly accurate? "I can navigate the browser to the IP address of the
server that hosts the Postgres database”. i.e. Something is listening on port
80 of the database machine? Or are you sending sql statements through the
firewall directly to the db?
