#!/fellow/monks.pl

I love PPM with ActiveState Perl. Just the idea of saying "install dbd-mysqlpp" and it's all done. That's why I loaded ActiveState 5.8.0 on my Redhat box...

My DBI-DBD app to MySQL is working fine on my Linux machine, where I'm running mySQL and my CGI's on, however, when I try to run my CGI on another web server accessing the database across the network, all the wheels fall off. 

$mwsdbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysqlPP:database=$db;host=$server;port=$po
+rt", $user, $passwd)

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On my local machine (without the port=$port bit), I set $server to 'localhost', and everything works fine, because it uses /tmp/mysql.sock to do the communication, however, when I specify $port=3306 and $server=192.168.0.2 (my Linux IP), I get this error.. 

[Thu Dec 12 10:04:43 2002] [error] [client 192.168.0.127] script not f
+ound or unable to stat: /home/httpd/cgi-bin/debugmwslib.pl
DBI->connect(database=mwsdb;host=192.168.0.2;port=3306) failed: Timeou
+t of authentication at /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.8/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/
+DBD/mysqlPP.pm line 109
 at mwslib.pl line 1143
Can't call method "prepare" on an undefined value at mwslib.pl line 97
+5.
Compilation failed in require at /home/httpd/cgi-bin/mws/debugmwslib.p
+l line 4.

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I've done a telnet to 192.168.0.2:3306, and it works, so the port is active. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'll need this to split the database and webserver to different hardware.

Thanks!

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In reply to DBD-mysqlpp can't connect remotely by Massyn

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