Title: Firewall Broken
Last modified: May 10, 2021

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# Firewall Broken

 *  Resolved [WebCodePoet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senjoralfonso/)
 * (@senjoralfonso)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firewall-broken/)
 * We are running NinjaFirewall since 2018 on the Server, since the last update 
   we get a connection to database error, firewall not working, we don’t have a “‘”
   I our password, ninjacheck says: NinjaFirewall is loaded but returned error code#
   4

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 *  Plugin Author [nintechnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nintechnet/)
 * (@nintechnet)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firewall-broken/#post-14423751)
 * Can you download and run this script: [https://nintechnet.com/share/wp-db.txt](https://nintechnet.com/share/wp-db.txt)
   
   1. Rename the file to “wp-db.php”. 2. Upload it into your WordPress root folder.
   3. Go to [https://YOUR](https://YOUR) WEBSITE/wp-db.php 4. Delete it afterwards.
 *  Thread Starter [WebCodePoet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senjoralfonso/)
 * (@senjoralfonso)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firewall-broken/#post-14424406)
 * The output is: Warning: mysqli::real_connect(): (HY000/2002): php_network_getaddresses:
   getaddrinfo failed: … on line 100
 *  Thread Starter [WebCodePoet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senjoralfonso/)
 * (@senjoralfonso)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firewall-broken/#post-14424417)
 * I fixed it.
 * define( ‘DB_HOST’, ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ ); is not working, it has to
   be define( ‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost:/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ );

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 * Last reply from: [WebCodePoet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senjoralfonso/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firewall-broken/#post-14424417)
 * Status: resolved