Manual:$wgDBserver

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Database host name or IP address. Found in .

If you are using MySQL on a non-standard port, you can use the "hostname:port" syntax, for example  .

Note that using a port number when you specify  as the host name will have no effect, as MySQL will connect through a socket instead.

If the MySQL server is on the same server and you want to connect through a socket in a non-standard location, you can use the "localhost:socket" location, for example  . Currently it's not possible to specify a custom location when connecting through socket when PHP is using the new MySQLi extensions.

Tip: Use IP addresses where possible to avoid the overhead of a DNS lookup for every single connection to the wiki.

  will be faster than  

  is only for PostgreSQL configuration.