user autentication failed..why ?

Hi, i have
*create the user michel with createuser (GID=501)
*start httpd/apache like michel/michel
*create the database esame with "michel" account
*insert a table in the database

and when i try to access via web/php to the database, but the dabase reply
me :

Warning: Unable to connect to PostgresSQL server: User authentication
failed in BaseSQL.php3 on line 24

and this is my piece of code:

14 Function ConnectSQL () {
15 $hostname="esame.enter.it";
16 $username="postgres";
17 $password="l1mb0";
18 $dbName="esame";
19 $admin_email="";
20 $port = "5432";
21
22 print("Connessione al server...");
23 /* Mi connetto al server */
24 $socket =
pg_connect($hostname,$port,"","",$dbName);
25
26 if ($socket)
27 { print ("collegato");
28 }
29 else { print("connessione non
possibile...");
30 exit;
31 }

note that $password and $username are not used.

any help ?
now i have see that my httpd run on the port 801 and not on the port 80
(on the port 80 there is another apache/httpd). How can I see to connect
to server esame.enter.it:801.

Now, i have tried to change the master httpd/apache from nobody/nobody to
michel/michel but nothing happen

plz help

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