Re: finding out what localhost is

2003-08-24 Thread Fred van Engen
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 07:44:10AM +0100, Pag wrote: > > > > >"localhost" is used in mysql to refer to the Unix domain socket. For > >security, they may not even provide remote TCP access to the mysql > >server. If "SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'skip_networking'" returns ON, then > >TCP access has been d

Re: finding out what localhost is

2003-08-24 Thread Pag
"localhost" is used in mysql to refer to the Unix domain socket. For security, they may not even provide remote TCP access to the mysql server. If "SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'skip_networking'" returns ON, then TCP access has been disabled. Otherwise, "SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'port'" will tell you what po

Re: finding out what localhost is

2003-08-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 24), Pag said: > Heres the problem. I have one of my client's site hosted on a > crappy server, and i have it running with php+mysql ok, the thing is > i need to connect to that site's mysql's database from a remote site > to get some data. The problem is that on the

finding out what localhost is

2003-08-24 Thread Pag
Heres the problem. I have one of my client's site hosted on a crappy server, and i have it running with php+mysql ok, the thing is i need to connect to that site's mysql's database from a remote site to get some data. The problem is that on the origin site (the crappy server), to connect to th