The firewall I am using is ZoneAlarm, the free version. I am nearly certain that it does not allow specific ports to be opened, at least not for specific addresses. So if this were a requirement, probably many others would have that specific problem.
However if nothing else works, I will try to look into this further when I have time. At the moment I must spend time on something else. "Jason Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 > > "Sam Hobbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> "Jason Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Windows XP Firewall, or any other firewall for that matter must be off. >> > Jason >> >> Can someone else confirm that this is correct? >> >> For one thing, when I use MySQL directly outside of a web page, it works. >> The sample C program works. >> >> For another thing, I doubt very immensely that everyone using >> mysql_connect >> does not use a firewall. Even if anyone else does, I will not. It would >> have >> been quite unreasonable for the developers of PHP to develop software >> with >> that requirement, but I doubt it was. >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
