Re: problem connecting to postgres via apache

On 01/24/2014 09:35 AM, Susan Cassidy wrote:
> I've already checked that. It is enabled. I am running Scientific Linux.

SELinux is enabled?
The database connection value is enabled to allow or disallow webserver
connections?

>
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
> <mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>> wrote:
>
> Susan Cassidy <susan(dot)cassidy(at)decisionsciencescorp(dot)com
> <mailto:susan(dot)cassidy(at)decisionsciencescorp(dot)com>> writes:
> > $dbh =
> DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname;host=${dbserver};port=$dbport;",
> > $dbuser, $dbpasswd) or
> > errexit( "Unable to connect to dbname $dbname, err: $DBI::errstr");
>
> > The exact same connection string works fine in a standalone perl
> program.
>
> Given the permissions errors you mentioned upthread, I'm wondering
> whether
> you're running on Red Hat/CentOS, and if so whether SELinux is
> preventing
> apache from connecting to unexpected port numbers. I seem to recall
> that there's a SELinux boolean specifically intended to allow or
> disallow
> database connections from webservers, but I couldn't tell you the name
> offhand.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

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