Hello DigitalOcean community, I’ve finally hosted my php files on my webhost, but now I’ve ran into an issue with MySQLi. When I try to connect to it, I get an error. Below is the code I’m using to connect:
$Connect = new mysqli("http://159.203.111.##/", "root", "########", "log_db");
if ($Connect->connect_error) {
die("An error has occurred while connecting to the host");
}
This always returns “An error has occured while connecting to the host”. I can also connect to “159.203.111.##/phpmyadmin” with those passwords aswell. I’m using WAMP and PHP to do this.
Does anyone know the issue?
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Code looks like you are trying to connect over http to your database. This is probably root of issue, try removing it.
After removing code will be something along:
$Connect = new mysqli("159.203.111.##", "root", "########", "log_db");
if ($Connect->connect_error) {
die("An error has occurred while connecting to the host");
}
If issue still persist, change IP address to localhost if database is on same server:
$Connect = new mysqli("localhost", "root", "########", "log_db");
if ($Connect->connect_error) {
die("An error has occurred while connecting to the host");
}
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