In article <CAOZy0ektHWPfH29gF65RyUX584NHp0km66XiVn9drnig--rF5g at mail.gmail.com>, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I actually made some progress on this. The problem was SSL. Once I I took > the SSL requirement out of the picture for the user everything worked. The > test php script and the wordpress site both. Originally when I setup my > wiki it NEEDED SSL. Because there was some sensitive data in it. My > website, however, is just a goofball toy project of mine. And doesn't > really need that. But since I have this done for my wiki I was like why > not? I stumbled getting the mediawiki to connect via SSL. Once I found the > setting $wgDBssl = true; for media wiki it just worked. > > For my wordpress site, I found the setting define('DB_SSL', true);. I set > that up in wp-config.php. However for some reason that wasn't the silver > bullet that the mediawiki SSL database setting was ( $wgDBssl = true; ). I > can understand why my little test script couldn't work with an SSL user. > But do you have any idea why that wordpress setting won't allow the site to > connect to the DB? While it may not be of super high importance to have my > site contact the DB via SSL, it would still be a nice thing to have. Did it use to work a few days ago? I have a box on which "yum update" installed a new version of openssl on 14 Aug, and that broke SSL connections for mysql. I haven't diagnosed it yet, neither by downgrading openssl again to see if it works, nor by recreating my CA and certs using the newer openssl. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org