I deployed a sample Rails app to a remote server with postgres hosted on the same server. The database.yml file was like this.
production: adapter: postgresql encoding: unicode database: remotepg_production pool: 5 host: localhost username: mrmann password: secret Everything worked fine. I then went into the database.yml file and replaced host: localhost with the ip address of a postgres database on another server host: 178.XXX.XXX like this
production: adapter: postgresql encoding: unicode database: remotepg_production pool: 5 host: 178.XXX.XXX.XXX #ip address of server with other postgres database username: mrmann password: secret When I restarted postgres on the server with the Rails app, the sample application now gave me the ‘something went wrong’ page for Rails.
The username and the password for the username are the same on both dbs. Can you suggest what the problem might be? Thanks
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Got it to work by reploying the app, which I guess restarted all the related processes. Thanks for your help.
That’s weird. Did you save the file? Make sure you restart any related processes as the code/config might be cached in one of them.
I removed that line from pg_hba.conf. Postgres restarts now on the server with the database I want to connect to. The rails app, however, is connected to the database on its own server, even though the host in the database.yml file is set to the ip address of server that has the postgres database I want to connect to i.e. the rails app is not connecting to database on the other server. <br> <br>