Re: Cannot connect to my Database
> How does it know what server to connect to if all it has is localhost?
The connect call determines that, eg in PHP mysql_connect() or mysqli_connect(). In such a call, the host argument specifies the hosting value thast is to be matched against a value of the `host` column in the mysql.user table.
Suggest you read the manual section on server privs & auth.
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Re: Cannot connect to my Database
January 20, 2013 11:48AM
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