Re: running postgresql on a private machine accessing it from public web pages

In your application, the connection string should have the ip address of the
postgres server. The postgres server (solaris box) should allow port 5432
through the firewall.
If you cannot access port 5432 on your solaris box from the linux box,
then make sure that you don't have a firewall in the way.

You'll also want to make sure that in postgresql.conf, you have set

listen_addresses='*'

or

listen_addresses='<the.ip.of.the.solaris.box.'

Good luck

--Scott
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On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Keith D. Evans <evans(at)umbc(dot)edu> wrote:

> Joshua,
>
> Let me rephrase what I wrote. The database is on a public machine (Linux),
> but the postgresql postmaster runs on a private machine (Solaris 10). Can
> we access the postgresql database through the public machine, even though
> the postmaster is running from a (different) private machine?
>
> thanx
> keith
>
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>> So, the question is, can someone go through these (public) web pages and
>>> access the postgresql database if the postgresql server is running on the
>>> private machine?
>>>
>>> We have other data in the postgresql and would like to only have to use
>>> one database types, i.e., postgresql.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> If you are using proper host control then yes you can make it so that
>> the PHP user is only able to access the public data in the private
>> database. See here:
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/client-authentication.html
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/user-manag.html
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Joshua D. Drake
>>
>>
>>
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