Still working on the move to WordPress… and need help specifying alternte port for MySQL

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Hello all. My apologies for taking so long to return to blogging… it has been hard to find the time to make the move to WordPress; which BTW it seems keeping support to old permalinks will take some time, and I will do little by little.

In any case, now that I found some time to work on the move to WordPress, I have a problem that I can't connect to MySQL 5 instance, because it is listening on a different port… I need to find out how to specify an alternate port on my wp-config.php installation file.

Using define('DB_PORT', '3307') doesn't work… and using define('DB_HOST', 'localhost:3307') doesn't work either….

Any pointers to this is appreciated. Thanks in advance…

ceo

3 thoughts on “Still working on the move to WordPress… and need help specifying alternte port for MySQL”

  1. I am having exactly the same issue. I’ll let you know if I find a way around it, and I guess I’ll watch the rss to see if you do.

    Cheers

  2. So I actually got it to work on a fresh install using : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:port.

    It could be that the issue you’re having is because the mysql client will connect through a socket versus a port when the ‘localhost’ name is used. You might try 127.0.0.1:3307.

    Good luck.

  3. Hi Bryan. I figured out my problem, which had to do with version compatibility issues between the MySQL client and server.

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