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What is my database server name?

On the Modwest shared hosting system, your database server will never be "localhost".

Instead, if you have your own domain name, then use: "db.YOURDOMAIN" where YOURDOMAIN is your own website's domain name, without any "www." in front. For example, if your website is at "http://www.mysite.com" then your domain name is just "mysite.com" and you can use "db.mysite.com" as a database server name.

If you do not have your own domain name, and your website is at http://yourname.modwest.com, then you can use db.yourname.modwest.com as your database server name, where you just prefix your website hostname with a "db.".

MySQL 5.0 is running on "db1.modwest.com".

User-Contributed Notes

17-Oct-2004 00:08

Do not try to use a Unix socket for your db connection. Just use the
database hostname

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