why does 'localhost' work on a server?

  • flight1307

    (@flight1307)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    Hello All

    Long story short – I put my wordpress site live to my server yesterday, with some assistance from my host’s helpdesk. It’s all working. But I’ve noticed today that my host’s guy used:

    /** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

    in ‘wp-config.php’ using ‘localhost’ instead of ‘http://www.my-live-site.com’. And it works. Is this normal? Is ‘localhost’ acceptable there when it’s a live server and not local?

    Thank you.

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  • Robin W

    (@robin-w)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    ‘localhost’ just means it’s on the same server as the wp installation

    So when installed on your PC, it means that the DB is on your PC
    When on a server it means the DB is also on that server

    Some hosting companies have their databases on separate servers optimised for DB transactions so you could well have a different server name there, but it won’t be a www.

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