moving my auth script to a freehostia site

[gsquare567]

heres the error message:

 

Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in

 

i tried connecting using:

DEFINE ('HOST', 'localhost');

DEFINE ('USER', 'root');

DEFINE ('PASSWORD', '');

DEFINE ('MYDB', 'AuthInfos');

 

// mysql connecting

$dbc = mysql_connect(HOST, USER, PASSWORD) or DIE('Could not connect to the database: ' . mysql_error());

[gsquare567]

the site says:

The correct MySQL database settings are:

 

MySQL Host: your server name

MySQL Port: 3306

MySQL Database: your database name

MySQL Username: your database name

MySQL Password: your database password

 

but i thought my server name is localhost... so what is it?

[snowdog]

I think it would only be localhost if the page is on the same server as the database, when it isnt it is porbably looking for 206.34.763.287 (your server address)

 

Snowdog

[gsquare567]

thanks for the reply, but didnt work.

Warning: mysql_connect(): Unknown MySQL Server Host '206.34.763.287' (3) in

[snowdog]

I hope you didnt use the IP i threw in as an example. If you did you need to input your server IP

 

Snowdog

[gsquare567]

nope, that didnt work.