# Database Connectivity Issue with Gitea
**URL:** https://forum.gitea.com/t/database-connectivity-issue-with-gitea/7109
**Category:** General
**Created:** [April 18, 2023, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/database-connectivity-issue-with-gitea/7109 "2023-04-18T06:39:29Z")
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### Author:  [@AshishJha](https://forum.gitea.com/u/AshishJha)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2023, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/database-connectivity-issue-with-gitea/7109/1 "2023-04-18T06:39:30Z")
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The database settings are invalid: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3306: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
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### Author:  [@jake](https://forum.gitea.com/u/jake)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/database-connectivity-issue-with-gitea/7109/2 "2023-04-18T19:00:13Z")
> The database settings are invalid: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3306: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
This is saying that Gitea cannot reach your database server at port 3306 on the local machine. Are you sure whatever database you are running is running and listening on `127.0.0.1:3306`?