Re: [PHP-DB] webserver script to localhost MySQL?

thanks.  I removed the additional ' at the end
and get this error (adding the echo as suggested)

http://testgbalkam.ipower.com/baddblog/

99.252.22.106
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output 
started at 
/hermes/bosweb/web250/b2508/ipw.testgbalkam/public_html/baddblog/wp-config.php:11) 
in 
/hermes/bosweb/web250/b2508/ipw.testgbalkam/public_html/baddblog/wp-includes/functions.php 
on line 1438

Error establishing a database connection


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Wardell" <[email protected]>
To: "'gary balkam'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 4:57 AM
Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] webserver script to localhost MySQL?


> Hi,
>
> Usually the line number give is very accurate.
>
>> define('DB_HOST', '99.252.22.106:/tmp/mysql.sock'');    //
>
> Looks to me like the quote marks aren't matched.
>
> Also, it may be that after you fix the quotes you will get another error.
>
> I suggest displaying DB_HOST:
>
>  echo(DB_HOST);
>
> So you can verify that the ip address and port are picked up correctly.
>
> Gary
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gary balkam [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Fri, March 21, 2008 10:15 PM
>> To: >> Subject: [PHP-DB] webserver script to localhost MySQL?
>>
>>
>> I'm pretty new to php and mysql.  And I just found this news
>> group about 4
>> minutes ago.
>> What I need to know, is how do I connect a wordpress
>> application, located on
>> a web server to a database located on my own computer.  The
>> reason for doing
>> this instead of syncing the dbs is the Sql server on the web
>> host is shared
>> and SLOW.  Mine only runs 1 maybe 2 databases.  wordpress and
>> maybe gallery
>> (maybe a forum later)
>>
>> How can i do this?
>>
>> URL is http://www.baddblog.info  changed this to
http://testgbalkam.ipower.com/baddblog/

>> here is the wp_config.php
>>
>> <?php
>> // ** MySQL settings ** //
>> define('DB_NAME', 'junior');    // The name of the database
>> define('DB_USER', 'gbalkam');     // Your MySQL username
>> define('DB_PASSWORD', '********'); // ...and password
>> define('DB_HOST', '99.252.22.106:/tmp/mysql.sock'');    //
>> 99% chance you
>> won't need to change this value define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
>> define('DB_COLLATE', '');
>>
>> // You can have multiple installations in one database if you
>> give each a
>> unique prefix
>> $table_prefix  = 'wp_';   // Only numbers, letters, and
>> underscores please!
>>
>> // Change this to localize WordPress.  A corresponding MO file for the
>> // chosen language must be installed to wp-content/languages.
>> // For example, install de.mo to wp-content/languages and set
>> WPLANG to 'de'
>> // to enable German language support.
>> define ('WPLANG', '');
>>
>> /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
>>
>> define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
>> require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');
>> ?>
>>
>> This script as above generates this error:
>> Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in
>> /home/content/g/b/a/gbalkam/html/wp-config.php on line 6
>>
>> PHP on LOCALHOST
>> Apache Version Apache/2.2.8 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.8
>> OpenSSL/0.9.8g
>> mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.5
>>
>> PHP on WEBSERVER
>> Activate/Deactivate Languages
>>      PHP Version PHP 5.x
>>
>>
>>
>> The wordpress works on localhost under apache.
>> Any ideas why this isnt working?
>> Thanks in advance
>> php noobie
>> GBalkam
>>
>>
>>
>>
>