watts Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 This seems like a stupid question but I'm trying to use a piece of freeware to convert and upload a db from access to mysql. The conversion is working fine but when I try to upload it it's not connecting to the server. So here's my question. I know that when I'm connecting to a db from a script on the server the host is "localhost" but when I'm trying to connect from outside the server what is the host? Is it the ip address or the domain or something else? I know the db name, username and password are correct so I think there's something wrong with the hostname I'm using.Any suggestions would be appreciated.Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btherl Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 You should ask your hosting provider about that. It's likely that you can't connect to the database from outside, and can only use localhost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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