Hello, On Wed, 2021-08-11 at 11:09 +0000, ourdiaspora wrote: > > > The connection to postgresql seems OK now (thank you), but the php > web page continues to fail to connect to the database: > > " > <html> > <head> > Generic CPAC database > </head> > <body> > <?php > $dbconn = pg_connect("dbname=cpacweb > user=cpaca host=localhost") or die("Could not connect"); > $stat = pg_connection_status($dbconn); > if ($stat === PGSQL_CONNECTION_OK) { > echo 'Connection status ok'; > } else { > echo 'Connection status bad'; > } > ?> > </body> > </html> > " > Returns: > > " > Generic CPAC database Could not connect > " > I don't know which version of PHP you are running, but can you re-write the call to pg_connect as a try . . . catch block so that the exact error message is returned instead of just a "die"? Are you sure postgres is configured to use port 5432? There is no PGPORT environment variable set? Why are you starting postgres with a -c option and no parameters following? I assume you know that version 9.6 of postgres is nearly at EoL. HTH, Rob