I am moving websites to Pair.com from a dedicated server where local is the implied database host. So, I have never had to declare it and connections using CGI::Application::Plugin::DBH have looked like this and worked fine:

$self->dbh_config( 'DBI:mysql:'.
                      $self->config_param('mysql.database'),
                      $self->config_param('mysql.username'),
                      $self->config_param('mysql.password'),
                      {RaiseError => 1} );
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However, Pair requires a host name. It might look like: vdb25b.pair.com and the database: 1945667_w

The docs for CGI::Application::Plugin::DBH give this for the data source

# use the same args as DBI->connect();
  $self->dbh_config($data_source, $username, $auth, \%attr);
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And DBI docs suggest this format for the data structure

$data_source = dbi:DriverName:database=database_name;host=hostname
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So, I have set up the connection to look like this:

my $data_source = 'DBI:mysql:'.
         $self->config_param('mysql.database').':'.
         $self->config_param('mysql.host');

   $self->dbh_config( 
         $data_source,
         $self->config_param('mysql.username'),
         $self->config_param('mysql.password'),
         { RaiseError => 1 }
   );
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There is no error, it just hangs and I have to manually kill it.

In a straight up connection using DBI, this works fine:

   $dbh = DBI->connect( 
         $data_source,
         config_param('mysql.username'),
         config_param('mysql.password'),
         { RaiseError => 1 }
   );
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Question: What is the data source look like when the host must be named when using CAP::DBH?

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