Hello:

I have inherited a system for which I not only need to maintain php code,
but also server as the system administrator.

I need to run some blog software and I need to know how to discover what my
db_host is set to or how to set my db_host.

The software requires this in order to run.

This is an absurdly fundamental question, but I am stuck with it. I haven't
had much luck finding this via the mysql documentation on the the website.


thanx

Dan

On Sep 20, 11:32 am, "news.prolog.net" <kone... [at] ptd.net> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have inherited a system for which I not only need to maintain php code,
> but also server as the system administrator.
>
> I need to run some blog software and I need to know how to discover what my
> db_host is set to or how to set my db_host.
>
> The software requires this in order to run.
>
> This is an absurdly fundamental question, but I am stuck with it. I haven't
> had much luck finding this via the mysql documentation on the the website.
>
> thanx
>
> Dan

It's the name of the machine that's running MySQL. If that's the same
machine as the webserver then it's "localhost."