No such host is known

[Kepingan]

Hello, so I have a problem with the database connection, it says host not found.
Can you help me solve this problem, Thanks in advance

Error Message

CodeIgniter\Database\Exceptions\DatabaseException
Unable to connect to the database.
Main connection [MySQLi]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo for sql112.infinityfree.com failed: No such host is known.

Other Information

[ChrisPAR]

Are you trying to connect from within the InfinityFree servers? If not, you are running into this limitation:

Connecting to MySQL from an external application

Sometimes, you may want to connect to your MySQL database on your free hosting account using external software, like a desktop database manager (like MySQL Workbench) or an external program you wrote yourself (like an Android or iOS app). You cannot connect to a free hosting MySQL database from outside your hosting account. You can only interact with your free hosting database through PHP scripts uploaded to your free hosting account, or through our phpMyAdmin installation. The ability to con…

[Kepingan]

oh… I see, now I understand. then do you mind helping me with htaccess settings too? because my InfinityFree host server currently only displays the CloudLinux Test Page. Thanks btw

Here the url : http://kepin.rf.gd/

[KangJL]

Please refer to this guide

How To Setup A Codeigniter 4 Project On Infinityfree

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for developers who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. – CodeIgniter Creating a full PHP website yourself is hard, and that’s why there are PHP Frameworks. A PHP framework is a platform for creating PHP web applications. It contains libraries with pre-packaged functions and classes and, more often than not, elements for software design pattern realization. Laravel is a popul…

[Kepingan]

oh yeah, forgot to mention, I’m using Codeigniter 4, and the controller is Home, so the index url should be
http://kepin.rf.gd/Home
but currently what is showing is 500 internal server errors

[Kepingan]

I’ve tried following the guide you gave, but it seems there’s something I haven’t set yet, so I still can’t open my website and when I opened kepin.rf.gd/public
I get an error , “kepin.rf.gd is currently unable to handle this request.”

[KangJL]

Please read

Http error 500

When trying to access your website, you may see a page which returns the status code “500”. In Google Chrome, you’ll see a page with the error code HTTP ERROR 500. There are typically two reasons which can cause this error: The PHP code has crashed. The .htaccess file contains invalid rules. Here are some things you can try to debug and fix this. Fixing crashing PHP code A HTTP ERROR 500 simply tells you that the PHP code has crashed, but gives no information as to why it has crashed. Gett…

[Kepingan]

Thank you!!, finally I know what causes this website to have problems, from what I read, the problem is that one of my php files, “autoload_static.php” exceeds 1MB, which will be immediately deleted by the server system.

[Kepingan]

Eyyyy… Thank you so much, The problem was solved !!!