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Thanks complich8, I’ll work on this more… Your post has helped me understand a little better how it should be.

The grant command was done by my hosts admin so i am not sure exactly what they did and i was thinking that could be part of the problem. I had them do it because it was something i was unfamiliar with.

It looks like in your grant command example, i need to specify the database that will be accessed. My host did not ask me for that info when they ran the command.

Again Thanks, I’ll take your advise and work on it more.

moshu, what are you talking about?

They are both true statements

I have a dedicated server, that i made some changed to the defult config that made it more secure.

Becuase podz said in the first reply that a host does not normally allow a site outside the network access a servers sql. I called to see if the company that has my server had any problem with that and they said it was no problem. Probubly because it is my dedicated server.

So, I am really not sure what you are taking about? And, why you have taken this position to my call for assistance to the wordpress support?

Have i posted something to offend you or for you to wonder if something i said were true?

As i said in a post above, i do not claim to be any expert in this, but i do do all my own server admin stuff. If i don’t know something i ask and read then try to figure things out for myself.

I could not get this to work so i posted here. I tried everything i could think of and what was suggested here.

I mentioned that i did make some config changes for security because that is the only reason i can come up with as to why it is not working.

What reason do i have to make untrue statments? What would i have to gain?

Again i don’t get why you are making these statements

Thanks piz_dim, that did not work either. I know i made some changes to my server a couple months ago for security, so i am not sure if this is the reason i am having this problem or not.

actually, that was the first thing i tried after my host opened the port. It did not work so i assumed that maybe i had to do it a certain way in the wordpress config file.

(Yes, I do have a hosting theamed blog, but i would consider this more of a php, mysql, wordpress problem that is a little abnormal. I have very few post that really get into those topics.)

I do not claim to know everything about web hosting, php, mysql or wordpress, Sorry if i offended you. Also, thanks for helping.

BTW: Congrats on your two years here!

thanks…i tried that a few different ways, i also tried PORT and still can not get it to work.

// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘*****’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘******’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘*****’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘https://myip’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

I tried these:
define(‘serveraddress:XXXX’);
define(‘serveraddress’, ‘XXXX’);
define(‘DB_serveraddress’, ‘XXXX’);
define(‘DB_PORT’, ‘XXXX’);
define(‘PORT’, ‘XXXX’);

plus others , i think

what i need to be able to do is specify the port to connect to the database in the config file. I know the port, but i don’t know exactly how i would do this.

If someone has done this or knows how i would do this, please help…Thanks

my host just told me that they would open the port….

However, Is this going to make my – sql server vanerable?

I asked my host this question and they told me they have done this for other clients and have not had any problems.

yea, i was thinking the same thing…. Today i brought that up… i asked them if i could talk to thier secirity team and they told me they don’t have one.

I am very disapointed, i thought i was happy with this host.

BTW: i just received a reply back and now they are saying it is the “xoops site that has xmlrpc files which were used for the hack”. But again, I don’t think they have a clue.

I am checking into the mode security, but it is a little over my head…. So i will need to find some help for that… i don’t think my “current” host will be much help at all.

Any suggestions on a “GOOD, Reliable and security supportive” Host? I don’t look for cheap… been down that road before.

well… see that is part of the problem.

I am getting conflicting information. First they told me it was the xmlrpc.php on my xoops site and when i asked for the part of the log file that shows that info they sent me a part of the log that showed a wordpress site xmlrpc file.

Then they say that the times match to the hack times. So i have reminded them about the original statement they made about the xoops site and i am waiting on their response.

The host is Servint. And for the past few weeks this has been going on. The hacker uiploads files and does a DoSAttack on other sites. Well, since this has started i have been patching some things up.

Today i was watching my root temp close and noticed a huge amount of file come from nowhere. I called the host and they stopped it and that is whaen they started looking at log files.

scratch this, i found the problem.

if you change a users level to zero then anyone can edit the post who has any user level higher than zero.

As long as i leave all registered users level at 1 and above they can only edit their own posts.

that’s exactly what i needed, works perfect ?? thanks,
dave

that is nice and clean.

thanks ??

ok…

thanks for the help ??

ok… i changed and updated my permalinks structure… and i made two more test post and everything seems to be working for all the links.

thanks,

i don’t understand what you meen by “Another Blogroll Update” i asumed u meant make couple of freash post????