http://coreygo.com/index.php/2008/12/19/on-migrating-to-wordpress-from-dasblog/ thoughts of the convoluted Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:11:37 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://coreygo.com/index.php/2008/12/19/on-migrating-to-wordpress-from-dasblog/comment-page-1/#comment-604 Michel Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:31:06 +0000 http://blogs.coreygouker.com/2008/12/19/OnMigratingToWordPressFromDasBlog.aspx#comment-604 I spent a long time finding the problem for my 500 error. PHP just could not connect to the MySQL database server. Turned out that localhost by default points to ::1 and not to 127.0.0.1 And MySQL does not listen on the IPv6 localhost IP. You can change this in the %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file. I spent a long time finding the problem for my 500 error.
PHP just could not connect to the MySQL database server.
Turned out that localhost by default points to ::1 and not to 127.0.0.1
And MySQL does not listen on the IPv6 localhost IP.
You can change this in the %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file.

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