Connection establishment fails when tried to connect to mysql server from python cgi script

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Hi,

I have an apache server (version Apache/2.2.15) configured to use python script. The script is supposed to connect to database and inserts data to table.

I have written a simple code as below:

Python

import MySQLdb as mdb
db = mdb.connect(host="mysql", user="one", passwd="two", db="test")
cur = db.cursor()
querystring = "INSERT INTO mytable (username, password) value (\"%s\", \"%s\")"%("aaa","bbb")

This code works fine when used from python command terminal, but fails when used from cgi script.

SQL

File "/var/www/cgi-bin/add_user.py", line 39, in &lt;module&gt;
addEntry(prop.text.strip())
File "/var/www/cgi-bin/add_user.py", line 19, in addEntry
  db = mdb.connect(host="203.171.xx.xx", user="usrone", passwd="psdone", db="test", port=3306)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 81, in Connect
  return Connection(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 187, in __init__
  super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs2)
OperationalError: (2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on '203.171.xx.xx' (13)")

The script file has all permissions (chmod 777) and firewall is disabled in both the pc's
any suggestions as to why this might happen?

Thanks

Posted 25-May-14 21:05pm

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Updated 25-May-14 22:27pm

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QuantumPlumber · Answer 1 · 2014-06-03T07:03:00

Solution 1

Port number? I was able to reproduce this error message on my setup by setting an incorrect port number for the database connection. An incorrect host address also produces it.

Posted 3-Jun-14 7:03am

QuantumPlumber

Updated 13-Jun-14 12:56pm

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Member 4686590 6-Jun-14 7:09am

In my case it is clearly not port number because the scrip works when run from shell.