Subject RE: [firebird-php] Re: Installing FB1.5 on XAMPP (W2K, Apache 2, PHP5)
Author Alan McDonald
> > Yeah - now the FB is started. But my testscript does not
> > work. It appears the message:
> >
> > Warning: ibase_connect() [function.ibase-connect]:
> > Unable to complete network request to host "localhost".
> > Failed to locate host machine. Undefined service gds_db/tcp.
> > in X:\htdocs\test.php on line 5 error in db connect
> >
>
> Hmm, that looks suspiciously like a 'services' file entry...
> Does windows have one of those?
>
> N.

sure does
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\services
file
- note - no file extension - just a plain text file
Alan