Hi Tom, This was a good idea...
> You might try an fsockopen() to port 3306 on the dbserver and > see if it works. If not, you get a reasonably descriptive error. > > I just tried a couple of known servers and bogus addresses with this > code: > > <?php > $ipaddr = "localhost"; # substitute the IP address here $fp > = fsockopen($ipaddr, 3306, $errno, $errstr, 5.0); > var_dump($fp, $errno, $errstr); if ($fp) > fclose($fp); > ?> I setup the test page and pointed to the dbserver: IP: 192.168.1.44 resource(2) of type (stream) int(0) string(0) "" I then pointed it at localhost: IP: localhost resource(2) of type (stream) int(0) string(0) "" And then another webserver without MySQL: IP: 192.168.1.26 bool(false) int(146) string(18) "Connection refused" I'm sure this is good to know because it proves at least part of PHP can reach the other machine... Which hopefully rules out a TCP/IP problem. I'm going to enable debugging on the MySQL server and see if that tells me anything. Thanks, Cameron -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
