Im trying to have PHP with mysql but Im not getting it working. I need to connect with mysql_connect to a non-local mysql server but im getting: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'mysql.host' (13) Connecting localhost its normal. How can I make php5_mysql connecting to a non-local server ?? >From phpinfo(): PHP Version 5.0.3 System FreeBSD moon.ibep.net 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #2: Wed Apr 13 08:31:42 BRT 2005 root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MYKERNEL i386 Build Date Feb 18 2005 15:52:10 Configure Command './configure' '--enable-versioning' '--enable-memory-limit' '--with-layout=GNU' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/etc/php' '--disable-all' '--enable-libxml' '--with-libxml-dir=/usr/local' '--enable-spl' '--with-regex=php' '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/sbin/apxs' '--disable-ipv6' '--prefix=/usr/local' 'i386-portbld-freebsd5.3' Server API Apache 2.0 Handler Virtual Directory Support disabled Configuration File (php.ini) Path /usr/local/etc/php.ini Scan this dir for additional .ini files /usr/local/etc/php additional .ini files parsed /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini PHP API 20031224 PHP Extension 20041030 Zend Extension 220040412 Debug Build no Thread Safety disabled IPv6 Support disabled Registered PHP Streams php, file, http, ftp, compress.bzip2, compress.zlib, https, ftps Registered Stream Socket Transports tcp, udp, unix, udg, ssl, sslv3, sslv2, tls mysql MySQL Support enabled Active Persistent Links 0 Active Links 0 Client API version 4.1.13 MYSQL_MODULE_TYPE /no value/ MYSQL_SOCKET /tmp/mysql.sock MYSQL_INCLUDE /no value/ MYSQL_LIBS /no value/ Directive Local Value Master Value mysql.allow_persistent On On mysql.connect_timeout 60 60 mysql.default_host /no value/ /no value/ mysql.default_password /no value/ /no value/ mysql.default_port /no value/ /no value/ mysql.default_socket /no value/ /no value/ mysql.default_user /no value/ /no value/ mysql.max_links Unlimited Unlimited mysql.max_persistent Unlimited Unlimited mysql.trace_mode Off Off -- []'s Luiz Henrique Ozaki <luiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 0xC842A83F KEYID