Jochem Maas wrote:

> Uwe Oeder wrote:
>
>>I am now using Classic server.
>>
>>I have added to the aliases.conf
>>creativeinfodb.fdb = /opt/lampp/uwe/creativeinfo/creativeinfodb.fdb
>>
>>In the firebird.conf I set.
>>DatabaseAccess = None
>>so that only aliases are used to connect to the database.
>>
>>My connection string to the firebird looks as follows.
>>
>>$host = 'creativeinfo.fdb' ;
>
>
> $host is not set to the value as defined in your aliases.conf file!!!
> instead:
>
> $host = 'creativeinfodb.fdb' ;
>
> ...reckon you have been staring at the screen for too long!
> does that help?

AND I would still suggest actually including the host
$host = '127.0.0.1:creativeinfodb.fdb'

( Can you use '.' in an alias? Does that work? Never thought to even try
;) )

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