| Re: Not bale to connect to MySQL with PHP [message #169656 is a reply to message #169655] |
Tue, 21 September 2010 22:26   |
MikeB
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Registered: September 2010
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Denis McMahon wrote:
> On 21/09/10 19:18, MikeB wrote:
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>> That led me to Windows etc/hosts and I found the mapping of 127.0.0.1 to
>> localhost was commented out.
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> Hmm, some malware has been known to hamper with the hosts file.
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> I'm pretty sure that the localhost definition isn't normally commented
> out on the default file that comes with windows.
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> Might be a symptom of a bigger underlying problem.
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Actually, no. It is documented in Microsoft Technet that this has been
done in Windows releases from Vista on. Unfortunately I don't have a
reference handy right now, but I read up on it this morning.
Seems Microsoft expects DNS service to resolve localhost and that they
are moving away from the hosts file.
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