Thread: [General] Warning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: unknown host name:

looks like php/apache doesn't know which computer is "maloyportalen".
You might want to add a host file entry mapping this name to an ip.

Robert Treat

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 14:03, Paul Ottar Tornes wrote:
> Warning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: unknown host name:
> maloyportalen in /www/maloyportalen.no/html/phpBB2/db/postgres7.php on
> line 79
> phpBB : Critical Error
>
> Could not connect to the database
>
>
> I have this in /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf
>
> local    all
> ident sameuser
> host    all        127.0.0.1            255.0.0.0              ident
> sameuser
> host    maloy    62.101.192.200     255.255.255.0      ident sameuser
> host    maloy    maloyportalen     255.255.255.0        ident sameuser
> host    all        0.0.0.0               0.0.0.0
> reject
>
> What is wrong, cause I cant se the problem..

"Paul Ottar Tornes" <critical@tiscali.no> writes:
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> Warning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: unknown host name: maloypo=
> rtalen in /www/maloyportalen.no/html/phpBB2/db/postgres7.php on line 79
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Perhaps that should be
             www.maloyportalen.no
?

In any case, "unknown host name" does not suggest any problem that
changing pg_hba.conf might solve; you're failing even to reach the
database server.

            regards, tom lane