can't connect to localhost but can connect to 127.0.0.1

[sphiengollie]

first, some background... when installing phpMyAdmin I could not use the default settings of connecting thru localhost but I did successful install with a connection thru 127.0.0.1

Now I'm trying to install PostNuke.723 and it's install program resolves the 127.0.0.1 to localhost. I started to go thru the install.php files and change this to explictly call 127.0.0.1

This worked somewhat but after editting about 20 files I decided to try to go at fixing the connection to 'localhost' problem.

I have solaris4.7 running Apache 1.3.27 with php4.2.3 and mysql3.23.42

So, my question, how do I setup my server to allow users to connect to the mysql daemon thru 'localhost'?

 

[Haunter]

Have you check the hosts file. I believe it has the definition of localhost. You might make sure it is not set to localhost.localdomain.com. I have seen this as the default on some *nix installations.

 

[sphiengollie]

I've gone through and checked my 'host' file.
- It includes: 127.0.0.1 localhost

I've also added:
mysql 3306/tcp
mysql 3306/udp
to my 'services' file, but still no connection?