DB connect connects to www.localhost.com

[Cocktail]

For some reason the statement mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "password") seems to connect to www.localhost.com, and then die.

What I (obviosly) want to do, is to connect to the mysql db locally on my machine.

Here is the complete code:

<?php 
echo "ÅÄÖåäö";
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "svensson") or die("Sune");
echo "Sune!";
mysql_select_db("example");
$sql = "SELECT * FROM mytable";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
echo "Sune!";
?>

[the_Igel]

Have you started mysqld, or forgot it? Probably if php can't find mysql daemon on local machine, it looks for localhost.com?..

[piersk]

Or, you could try having 127.0.0.1 as the address instead of hostname.

[Cocktail]

Have changed to

$x = mysql_connect("127.0.0.1", "root", "svensson") or die("Sune");

but still no cigar...

However it now connets to localhost a few times before trying to connect to www.localhost.com...

MySql is up and running, so is Apache.

I got the advice to add localhost to the /etc/hosts file but it already contained the line
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
(and nothing else...)

What else can I do? 😕

-C

[adrian_quah]

try this:

http://127.0.0.1

instd of just the 127.0.0.1

hope it works there!