On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:59:56PM -0000, etancik wrote:

> Hi,
>
> First of all, I am not english native speaker so my abilities are limited.
>
> When I try connect from PHP to Firebird I aways get this:
>
> "Warning: ibase_connect(): Unable to complete network request to host "localhost". Failed to establish a connection. in /var/www/html/test.php on line xxxx"
>
> Source code from PHP:
>
> <?php
> ini_set('display_errors', 'On');
> error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);
> echo "Running tests...<br>\n";
>
> try {
> $conn = ibase_connect('/opt/firebird/examples/empbuild/employee.fdb', 'sysdba', 'DfG4WzoN');
> echo "<br>";
> $conn = ibase_connect('localhost:/opt/firebird/examples/empbuild/employee.fdb','SYSDBA','DfG4WzoN','UNICODE_FSS',0,3,'admin');
> echo "<br>";
> $conn = ibase_connect("/opt/firebird/examples/empbuild/employee.fdb","SYSDBA","DfG4WzoN");
> echo "<br>";
> $conn = ibase_connect("localhost:/opt/firebird/examples/empbuild/employee.fdb", "sysdba", "DfG4WzoN");
> echo "<br>";
> }catch (Exception $e) {
> echo $e->getMessage();
> }
> ?>
>
> At this moment i have clear instalation of CentOS 6.3(32bit) with all Updates + PHP 5.3.3 + FirebirdSS 2.5.2 + Intebase modul created by this: http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq191/
>
> Centos is installed on VMware Player.(So i can upload whole system if needed)
>
> If i try connect to DB via isql its everything OK.
> If i check state of Intebase modul via phpinfo() its loaded.
> Apache is groupmember of Firebird user group and Firebird is groupmember of Apache.
>
> If someone can help I will be very grateful.

What does the telnet to the firbird port shows to you , it should look
like this

telnet localhost 3050
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.

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