php – Getting connection failed: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known

php – Getting connection failed: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known

Thanks Prerak,

This is the answer, my database is on the same machine so I just needed to edit:

$servername = localhost

Now everything is working just fine.

The value youve specified for $servername is not a host name but rather a URL, or resource name. The host name would be just www.url.com.

Of course, as youve already discovered, localhost is the correct host name if the client and server reside on the same box.

php – Getting connection failed: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known

For people coming from Google:
If you work with Docker, you might use the name of the database docker container here, like

$dbserver=mydockerbox-mysql;

if your docker-compose.yml looks like this:

services:
  mydockerbox-mysql:
    image: mysql:5.7.26
    container_name: mydockerbox-mysql

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