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Douglas Danley
1,978 PointsWhat should the 'DB_HOST' be changed to?
In this video, at 04:44 it shows ‘localhost’ as the DB_HOST that is defined on line 28, yet the video is about uploading the site you built locally to a server - what should this be changed to?
2 Answers
Ron McCranie
7,837 Pointslocalhost is what the computer running the code calls itself. That value works in just about any environment as long as your database is on the same machine as the php files. You could also use 127.0.0.1 which means the same thing (except some very rare occasions). So to answer your question, you shouldn't need to change it.
Jared Parmenter
3,434 PointsI had this question also, and found the string my GoDaddy installation was using for the hostname via the Hosting Panel -> Databases -> [the database name I had already setup] -> Details -> Host Name. I imagine it's similar for other providers as well.
Although as Ron points out, it worked perfectly fine for me defining it as 'localhost' in the wp-config file, also. But just fyi in case anyone else out there is looking for where this comes from, if you're doing the local->remote direction :)