Well, I've been doing some tinkering. I was having issues with other PHP apps, they were timing out connecting to the database.
In my research, I discovered that PHP 5.3, and Windows Server 2008 (as well as Vista), have issues resolving "Local host". I also discovered that in the hosts file, there is an entry "::1 localhost". If you comment out this entry, you can successfully connect most of your PHP scripts to the DB. Of course, I'm still having issues with VBulletin.
Here's what it's doing now.
Code:
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\Websites\ToE\Forum\includes\init.php on line 49
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\Websites\ToE\Forum\includes\init.php on line 101
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\Websites\ToE\Forum\includes\init.php on line 105
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\Websites\ToE\Forum\includes\init.php on line 113
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\Websites\ToE\Forum\includes\init.php on line 124
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\Websites\ToE\Forum\includes\init.php on line 128
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\Websites\ToE\Forum\includes\init.php on line 136
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\Websites\ToE\Forum\includes\init.php on line 205
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\Websites\ToE\Forum\includes\init.php on line 383
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\Websites\ToE\Forum\includes\class_core.php on line 2529
I've changed the database server name in the /includes/config.php to "127.0.0.1", but with no change. I'm wondering if there is another location I should change the "localhost" setting to 127.0.0.1
Just thought I would see if anyone else had any thoughts.