In a default setup, I believe the port is 3306. Check your MySQL config files, as this can be changed. Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: Louis Feng <lfeng@cs.kent.edu> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 10:34 PM Subject: Question on the port PHP uses to connect to remote MySQL > Here is my problem. I have PHP running on one machine, mysql on another > one. Everything works fine till I put a firewall on the PHP machine, > which blocks pretty much every port there is except port 80. Now, PHP > can't connect to the mysql database anymore. If I disable the firewall > on the PHP machine it works again. So I eliminate the reasons down to > that PHP must uses some port for mysql return the query. The question is > which port does PHP use for the connection? I'm NOT talking about 3306 > which is used by Mysql. Anyone could help? Thanks in advance. > > Louis > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
