Subject Re: [firebird-support] Firebird is not working well under Mono, Apache and Linux
Author Milan Babuskov
marcoaureliocastro wrote:
> I have an aplication written in Delphi 2005 and Firebird Provider
> 1.7. I works ok in Windows but in Linux (acessing the same database)
> it does not work. The database as the directory is associated to the
> user firebird with chmod 777

Not a very good idea. Better use 700.

>. The messages are:
>
> FirebirdSql.Data.Firebird.FbException: Unable to complete network
> request to host "localhost".

It looks like Firebird server isn't running. Can you connect via isql or some
other tool like FlameRobin or IBAccess?

isql localhost:/database_directory/database.fdb -user sysdba -pass 123

P.S. Apache hasn't got anything to do with this problem.

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Milan Babuskov
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