Garvin: Sorry for replying to myself here, but I just thought I'd save you from wasting your time, I spoke w/ our sysadmin here and he informed me that the Pg PHP modules are installed on the public server but not on the development server. As you may have already guessed I want to host my blog on ...

Garvin: Good idea, I agree it makes sense to establish that PHP is working in conjunction with Postgres prior to modifying the code. Is there a standard method of testing to determine whether or not we are good to go? Thanks Garvin, you do great work.

- Nick

Sorry for double post! Not sure how I managed to do that!

- Nick

I appreciate the reply, unfortunately that didn't solve it meaning I have a bigger issue at hand. I think it may have something to do with the fact that I need to use psqld rather than psql for the command. Any thoughts on this one?

I really don't know PHP, but I thought I would have no problem hacking the code below to connect on 5434, what am I doing wrong? What needs to be added and where?

function serendipity_db_connect() {
global $serendipity;

if (isset($serendipity['dbPersistent']) && $serendipity['dbPersistent ...

I really don't know PHP, but I thought I would have no problem hacking the code below to connect on 5434, what am I doing wrong? What needs to be added and where?

function serendipity_db_connect() {
global $serendipity;

if (isset($serendipity['dbPersistent']) && $serendipity['dbPersistent ...

I don't know PHP, what exactly did you change to specify a non-default port? I assume it would just be adding a port='5434' in the sprintf( line but I tried that and it didn't work, what am I missing?


$serendipity['dbConn'] = $function(
sprintf(
'%sdbname=%s user=%s password=%s',
strlen ...

During my Serendipity installation I keep getting the error msg: "Could not connect to database; check your settings." I am sure this is because I am running Postgres on a non-standard port. I tried putting "localhost:5434" in the 'Database Host' section of the config, but no luck. How can I ...