Re: Problem about connecting PostgreSQL through TCP/IP - Mailing list pgsql-php

From Hui Chen
Subject Re: Problem about connecting PostgreSQL through TCP/IP
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Msg-id 923c3c1405081621556f8a3c4d@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Problem about connecting PostgreSQL through TCP/IP  (Hui Chen <gray.chenhui@gmail.com>)
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Thanks, Matthew! I did notice that "-i" flag was used to enable the
postgresql server to listen over TCP/IP. However, it seemed to me this
option had become obsolete in postgresal 8.0. I did not find "-i"
option from man page. Plus, the document here
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/runtime-config.html
states that I only need to insert "listen_addresses" option in the
postgresql.conf file. Did I misunderstand anything? What do you think?
thanks again!

Gray

On 8/15/05, Matthew Terenzio <matt@jobsforge.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > restart posgresql by
> > /sbin/service postgresql restart
> > The server was restarted OK.
> I usually use pg_ctl to start.
>
> With it and other methods of starting postgres you have to include the
> -i flag to get it to listen over TCP/IP
>
> perhaps your method of restarting needs this flag as well?
>
> >
> > The PHP script used to connect database is  as follows,
> > <?php
> >   $conn = pg_connect("host=localhost port=5432 dbname=foodb user=foo
> > password=foo") or die ("Can not connect to postgres");
> >    $result=pg_exec("SELECT * FROM footbl");
> >    $fetch = pg_fetch_row($result);
> >    print "<html><body>";
> >    print $fetch[0];
> >    print "<body></html>";
> >
> >    pg_close($conn); // Close this connection
> > ?>
> >
> > Assume this PHP script is named as "connectdb.php", then on
> > commandline, when I run the following,
> >                       php connectedb.php
> > I see correct results, e.g.,
> > <html><body>foo<body></html>
> >
> > On commandline again, I used the following to connect database,
> > psql -d foodb -h localhost -p 5432 -U foo
> > Password: ************
> > Welcome to psql 8.0.3, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
> >
> > Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
> >        \h for help with SQL commands
> >        \? for help with psql commands
> >        \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
> >        \q to quit
> >
> > foodb=>
> >
> > It is OK. Then I disabled "iptables" temporarily for testing purpose by
> > /sbin/service iptables stop
> > Flushing firewall rules:                                   [  OK  ]
> > Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter                    [  OK  ]
> > Unloading iptables modules:                                [  OK  ]
> >
> > On localhost, I tried this command,
> > telnet localhost 5432
> > after hit "enters", telnet exited. I checked postgresql_%S.log and see
> > "LOG:  invalid length of startup packet"
> > which means postgresql server indeed saw the telnet connection.
> >
> > I tried this on any of my other machines in the LAN, I observed the
> > same thing.
> >
> > In summary, it seemed the postgresql allowed TCP/IP connection, and
> > worked well. However, when I ran the PHP script through web browser, I
> > did not get connection. Instead, in Apache web server's error_log, I
> > see
> > [client 192.168.1.10] PHP Warning:  pg_connect() [<a
> > href='function.pg-connect'>function.pg-connect</a>]: Unable to connect
> > to PostgreSQL server: could not connect to server: Permission
> > denied\n\tIs the server running on host "localhost" and
> > accepting\n\tTCP/IP connections on port 5432? in /foo/connectdb.php on
> > line 2
> >
> > Interestingly, when I checked the log file for postgresql again, it
> > did not have anything for this connection failure. It seemed the
> > connection did not send to the database server at all. However,
> > 1) I disabled firewall
> > 2) I can telnet the ports
> > 3) I can run the script from commandline
> >
> > What could go wrong?
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your reading this lengthy email. Waiting for your
> > help!
> >
> > Gray
> >
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