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How do I connect to my database from php?

I had this working on my previous hosting service, but I think there’s either an issue with permissions or my credentials are wrong. Here’s the php (with password changed of course) The error I get is “405 Method Not Allowed”. The database is connected to my hosting site (both on Digital Ocean) with permissions set to both my IP and the website.

<?php
$dbhost = "maindb-do-user-15648689-0.c.db.ondigitalocean.com:25060";
$dbuser = "doadmin";
$dbpass = "mypassword";
$dbname = "defaultdb";
$conn = mysqli_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass,$dbname);

// Check connection
if (!$conn) {
die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());
}
?>

I have also tried to connect with the above info via Azure Studio:

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I get “internal connection fatal error”.

Stack trace:

System.InvalidOperationException: Internal connection fatal error.
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.TdsParserStateObject.TryProcessHeader()
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ConsumePreLoginHandshake(SqlConnectionEncryptOption encrypt, Boolean trustServerCert, Boolean integratedSecurity, Boolean& marsCapable, Boolean& fedAuthRequired, Boolean tlsFirst, String serverCert)
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Connect(ServerInfo serverInfo, SqlInternalConnectionTds connHandler, Boolean ignoreSniOpenTimeout, Int64 timerExpire, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, Boolean withFailover)
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.AttemptOneLogin(ServerInfo serverInfo, String newPassword, SecureString newSecurePassword, Boolean ignoreSniOpenTimeout, TimeoutTimer timeout, Boolean withFailover)
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.LoginNoFailover(ServerInfo serverInfo, String newPassword, SecureString newSecurePassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, SqlCredential credential, TimeoutTimer timeout)
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.OpenLoginEnlist(TimeoutTimer timeout, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, SqlCredential credential, String newPassword, SecureString newSecurePassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance)
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds..ctor(DbConnectionPoolIdentity identity, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, SqlCredential credential, Object providerInfo, String newPassword, SecureString newSecurePassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance, SqlConnectionString userConnectionOptions, SessionData reconnectSessionData, Boolean applyTransientFaultHandling, String accessToken, DbConnectionPool pool)
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, DbConnectionPoolKey poolKey, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningConnection, DbConnectionOptions userOptions)
   at Microsoft.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreatePooledConnection(DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningObject, DbConnectionOptions options, DbConnectionPoolKey poolKey, DbConnectionOptions userOptions)
   at Microsoft.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.CreateObject(DbConnection owningObject, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal oldConnection)
   at Microsoft.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.UserCreateRequest(DbConnection owningObject, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal oldConnection)
   at Microsoft.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.TryGetConnection(DbConnection owningObject, UInt32 waitForMultipleObjectsTimeout, Boolean allowCreate, Boolean onlyOneCheckConnection, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal& connection)
   at Microsoft.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.WaitForPendingOpen()
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlRetryLogicProvider.ExecuteAsync(Object sender, Func`1 function, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlRetryLogicProvider.ExecuteAsync(Object sender, Func`1 function, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.SqlTools.ServiceLayer.Connection.ReliableConnection.ReliableSqlConnection.<>c__DisplayClass30_0.<<OpenAsync>b__0>d.MoveNext() in /_/src/Microsoft.SqlTools.ManagedBatchParser/ReliableConnection/ReliableSqlConnection.cs:line 319
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
   at Microsoft.SqlTools.ServiceLayer.Connection.ConnectionService.TryOpenConnection(ConnectionInfo connectionInfo, ConnectParams connectionParams) in /_/src/Microsoft.SqlTools.ServiceLayer/Connection/ConnectionService.cs:line 705

The information is taken directly from my Digital Ocean database connection details page. I’m not sure what I need to do to get this working.

I’m really new to databases so if you have any advice or a fix, please be detailed, thank you so much.

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I can connect to the db using Azure Studio now but I still am getting 405 error when trying to use php to POST to the site. I set my headers to allow POST and GET so I’m not sure what to do.

I figured it out, I needed to change the port.

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