Re: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL Server: Permission denied

  Did you try to restart the PosgreSQL server using pg_ctl ?

$ pg_ctl restart


   Are you able to connect as user from the command line?

$ psql AddressBook www

  Regards,

  Javier


>
> Hi ,
> Here is the complete description of the problem ...
>
> I have newly installed fedora core 4 with option as everyting.
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> it comes with apache webserver, postgresql , php-postgresql, php-gd etc,
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> it creates a default user postgres with home = /var/lib/psql
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> 1. i loged in as postgres
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> 2. called initdb
>   created database under directory ~/data
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> 3. changed postgresql.conf to include
>       listen_addresses = '*'
>       port = 5432
>
> 4. changed pg_hba.conf
>       local  all  all                        trust
>       host    all  all  127.0.0.1/32        trust
>       host    all  all  192.168.1.18/24      trust
>       host    all  all        ::1/128        trust
>
> 5. postmaster -i -D ~/data &
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> 6. createdb AddressBook
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> 7. psql AddressBook
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> 8. create table addresses( Name text, Phone text, Email text);
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> 9. create user www NOCREATEDB NOCREATEUSER;
>
> 10. grant all on addresses to www;
>
> 11. from other terminal i loged in as root
>
> 12. changed /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
>
>     User www
>     Group postgres
>
> 13. copied add.html and add-entry.php into directory /var/www/html
>
> add.html
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Name
Phone
E-mail

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> --------------------------------------------------
> add-entry.php
> --------------------------------------------------
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>  $db = pg_Connect( "dbname=AddressBook user=www");
> if( !$db )
> {
>   echo "Could not connect!";
>   exit;
> }
>
> $Name=$_GET['Name'];
> $Email=$_GET['Email'];
> $Phone=$_GET['Phone'];
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> $query = "INSERT INTO Addresses VALUES( '$Name', '$Phone', '$Email' );";
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> $result = pg_Exec( $db, $query );
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> if( !$result )
> {
>   echo "No result set returned!";
>   exit;
> }
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> $rows = pg_NumRows( $result );
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> if( $rows = 0 )
> {
>   echo "Add Failed.";
>   exit;
> }
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> $query = "SELECT * FROM Addresses WHERE \"Name\" = '$Name';";
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> $query = "SELECT * FROM Addresses WHERE \"Name\" = '$Name';";
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> $result = pg_Exec( $db, $query );
> $row = pg_Fetch_Row( $result, 0 );
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> $nameResult = $row[0];
> $phoneResult = $row[1];
> $emailResult = $row[2];
>
> echo "Name = $nameResult
";
> echo "Phone = $phoneResult
";
> echo "E-mail = $emailResult
";
>
> pg_Close( $db );
> ?>
>
> 
Add Okay!
>
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Error i get is
> Mon Apr 03 18:39:53 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) configured --
> resuming normal operations
> [Mon Apr 03 18:42:17 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist:
> /var/www/html/favicon.ico
> [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning:  pg_connect() [ href='function.pg-connect'>function.pg-connect]: Unable to connect to
> PostgreSQL server: could not connect to server: Permission denied\n\tIs
> the server running locally and accepting\n\tconnections on Unix domain
> socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"? in /var/www/html/add-entry.php on
> line 5, referer: http://localhost/add.html
> [Mon Apr 03 18:42:22 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist:
> /var/www/html/favicon.ico
>
> _______________________________________________________
>
> from the command line it works fine
> i.e php add-entry.php works fine ( ofcourse adds an empty row into the
> data base)
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> i did telnet
>
> [root@localhost html]# telnet localhost 5432
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
>
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> data/pg_log/postgresql-Mon.log contains
>
> LOG:  invalid length of startup packet
>
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>
> I am not getting any clue as to how to solve this problem ...let me know
> if you have any idea in solving this porblem.
>
> regards
> Muralidhar
>
>
>



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