[support] Moving to a new host

[Chris Johnson]

Kobus Myburgh wrote:
> Gordon and all,
> 
> Thanks for all your help. The host has found some issue on the server
> thanks to your troubleshooting, and is investigating a possible
> solution.
> 
> In the meantime he asked if I could ask the list if it is possible to
> put a port number in the $db_url for the database server?
> 
> in other words, something like: $db_url =
> 'mysql://drupaluser:mypassword@111.111.111.111:3307/drupaldb';
> 
> where 111.111.111.111 is the MySQL database server?
> 
> My gut feeling is that the string will not get parsed correctly,
> because of the fact that there is a : already in the $db_url after the
> drupaluser.


No, that should work just fine.  Drupal handles port specifications just fine 
using PHP's parse_url().