PHP can't connect to PostgreSQL on CentOS 7

Question

I have CentOS 7 running in VirtualBox on OSX. Apache, PHP 5.4 and PostgreSQL 9.2 are all running. But, when my (simple) php-script tries to connect to PostgreSQL it doesn\'t

Answer 1

Probably SELinux is blocking your database connection.

Make sure that you set the correct boolean to allow your web application to talk to the database:

sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect_db 1