On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 07:40:12PM +0100, François Bayart wrote: > > And what ports on the ppp0 have I to open, that the local php-scripts > > can connect to the database ??? > > the 3128 with de lo ( local interface ) you can start mysql > ./safe_mysqld --bind-address=127.0.0.1 > > and now you can just access to your mysql database wiyth the 127.0.0.1 Ip so > just by your local server it's more secure
just add the line 'skip-networking' to the [mysqld]-section of your /etc/mysql/my.cnf, and mysqld doesn't bind to any network interface. You can connect to the database via unix-socket /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock Bodo -- Michael 'Bodo' Feger [EMAIL PROTECTED]