I am trying to get postgres working on my droplet.
If I do a port scan for the ip of 5432, it says the port is closed. If I try to access with PGAdminIII, I get an error of ‘server doesn’t listen’
If I do a psql \conninfo I get
You are connected to database “rails” as user “rails” via socket in “/var/run/postgresql” at port “5432”.
I am able to connect with psql and create a test table
rails=> create table test (test varchar (10) );
CREATE TABLE
rails=> /dt
rails-> \d
List of relations
Schema | Name | Type | Owner
--------+------+-------+-------
public | test | table | rails
(1 row)
rails->
I think the problem could be in my database.yml. Is this the correct code for production?
production:
<<: *default
database: rails
username: rails
password: <%= ENV['APP_DATABASE_PASSWORD'] %>
I’d appreciate any help in getting pg working
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By default PostgreSQL does not listen on your droplet’s public IPs so it is not accessible from clients on different computers. This will walk you through enabling remote connections. I would caution that if you do this you should also set up a firewall to restrict access to the now public PostgreSQL service so that only the client IPs you will be using can connect.