add your hostname to you hosts file
and make sure you have search yourdomain.com in your resolv.conf
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On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Robert Chalmers wrote:
> NOTE: For those who never read past the first sentence - please read the whole
> message.
>
> On a FreeBSD-2.2 Pentium platform,
>
> I have Apache-1.3.3 with Php-3.0.6 as a compiled in module, and
> Postgresql-6.4.1.
>
> Prior to this, I had Apache with phpfi, an earlier version of php3, and
> Postgresql-6.1, which worked fine.
>
> The postgres's pg_hba.conf file remains the same. The php3.ini file is
> operational and fine.
>
> Apache delivers php3 documents with no problem.
> postgresql passes all its regression tests, and also 'works' fine.
>
> However,
> Since I have updated, either php3, or pgsql, is refusing a connection from the
> php3 engine to the database.
>
> This is the Error message delivered to the Browser, from the document I called
> "begin.php3", which is at;
> http://www.chalmers.com.au/~robert/begin.php3
>
> Warning: Unable to connect to PostgresSQL server: connectDB() -- unknown
> hostname: nanguo in
> /usr/home/robert/www/begin.php3 on line 9
> Database NOT Connected.
>
>
> The document could not be simpler. This is it. 14 lines of code.
>
> <html>
> <body>
> <?php $database = pg_connect("host=nanguo dbname=ecotourism port=5432"); ?>
> <br>
> <?php if ($database):
> echo "Database Connection.";
> else:
> echo "Database NOT Connected.";
> endif;
> ?>
> <br>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
>
> In short, I now have a completly new, up to date suite of software, that works
> perfectly, just won't do the 'connect to database' bit from php3!
>
> The question is: What is telling me that "unknown hostname: nanguo" error. and
> what can I do to fix it?
>
>
>
> I'd really appreciate a solution to this. I need to be able to talk to the
> databases.
> Thanks
> Robert
>
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