Will revOpenDatabase work in a shared-hosting environment

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi,

Are you sure that the MySQL server is using old-style password?

Best,

Mark

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Op 17-jan-2007, om 17:14 heeft RGould8 at aol.com het volgende geschreven:

> I'm having a rough time getting revOpenDatabase to work on a mySQL  
> database
> that I am presently hosting at www.simplehost.com.   I've checked  
> the ports on
> simplehost, and they claim that the port is 3306 for mySQL.   I've  
> written
> lots of php scripts which successfully pull data from the database  
> locally on the
> server.   It's just the standalong application in Rev that's the  
> roadblock at
> the moment.   I've even downloaded the excellent MySQL tests demo,  
> and it's
> not connecting either.
>
> The only variables I can think of that might be causing problems:
>
> 1)   simplehost.com is blocking access from the outside
> 2)   perhaps I need to try the SSL settings
> 3)   perhaps it's something I'm doing wrong in the way I'm passing  
> data into
> the revOpenDatabase command
>
> Partially, I don't trust my ISP, but partially, I don't trust me  
> either - - -
> any help is greatly appreciated
>
> revOpenDatabase 
> ("MySQL","www.simplehost.com","mytestDB',robtest,<pass>)