Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Unknown MySQL server host

[zenacity]

Hi osCommerce Gurus! Please help...

 

I have osCommerce running here

 

https://www.parisianpeel.com/osCommerce/

 

This site has been up for a while (couple years) and I just started getting (or at least hearing about) this problem. Basically it is an intemittant problem that happens when viewing an item or just browsing. I will get this error message but then if I refresh the page it will work fine. It almost seems like a timing out issue to me (but it returns immediately). If you go to the link above and just click on a few items I almost guarantee that you will see this error. When you refresh the page the message will be gone.

 

Any ideas??

 

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Unknown MySQL server host 'mysql291.secureserver.net' (2) in /home/content/A/t/i/Atimed1/html/osCommerce/includes/functions/database.php on line 19

Unable to connect to database server!

[♥geoffreywalton]

Do you have double quotes (") round the server name in the config files?

 

If so, try changing them to single quotes (').

 

This has been known to cause this behaviour.

 

G

[zenacity]

Nope, they are single quotes. I changed the sql server to use an IP address and it seems to have made a difference.

 

Thanks!

[bensuba]

Nope, they are single quotes. I changed the sql server to use an IP address and it seems to have made a difference.

 

Thanks!

 

Thank you. This happens to me. I have pinged with command windows cmd.exe to get ip, and then changed both configuration.php

 

You are saving my life