Re: Connecting to remote db with DBI

[ferreira]

in reply to Connecting to remote db with DBI

It looks like you're making a mistake when building the DSN: constrast yours ("DBI:mysql:$db;host=$host") and the one provided in the documentation of DBD::mysql:

use DBI;

$dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=$database;host=$hostname;port=$port";

You're missing the "database=" before $db.

[dana]

Thank you.

I needed the 'database=' in the statement. I also had to use the hostname rather than the IP address, however this may be a network issue.

My final connection code looks like the following:
my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=$db;host=$host";
my $dbh = DBI->connect( $dsn, $user, $pass, { RaiseError => 1 }) or die ( "Couldn't connect to database: " . DBI->errstr );