# Database settings are invalid?
**URL:** https://forum.gitea.com/t/database-settings-are-invalid/4492
**Category:** Install/Maintain/Configure
**Created:** [January 25, 2022, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/database-settings-are-invalid/4492 "2022-01-25T07:51:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@DarkTrinity](https://forum.gitea.com/u/DarkTrinity)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/database-settings-are-invalid/4492/1 "2022-01-25T07:51:36Z")
Hello dear community,
I have created a Gitea server via a Docker container on a test instance (VirtualBox) - everything works wonderfully here.
Now I want to do the same on my web server but I get the following error message in the setup:
> Database settings are invalid: dial tcp 172.21.0.2:3306: connect: connection timed out
I would like to use the host’s database - on Virtualbox it worked with this IP. Port 3306 + 3300 is free in the FW, the access data to the database is also correct and I have now even allowed the user access from any host - but the error message simply does not change 😡
```auto
/etc/gitea# cat docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
networks:
gitea:
external: false
volumes:
gitea:
driver: local
services:
server:
image: gitea/gitea:1.13.6
container_name: gitea
environment:
- DB_TYPE=mysql
- DB_HOST=172.21.0.2
- DB_NAME=DBNAME
- DB_USER=DBUSER
- DB_PASSWD=DBPW
restart: always
networks:
- gitea
volumes:
- /var/www/clients/clientx/weby/private/giteadata/data:/data
- /var/www/clients/clientx/weby/private/giteadata/config:/config
- /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
- /var/run/mysqld:/var/run/mysqld
ports:
- "3300:3000"
- "222:22"
```
Since port 3000 is already occupied for Rocketchat, I switched to 3300 - everything works wonderfully on Virtualbox ^^
The Apache conf as follows:
```auto
## gitea
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode
# Note: no trailing slash after either /git or port
ProxyPass /git http://127.0.0.1:3300 nocanon
ProxyPassReverse /git http://127.0.0.1:3300
```
Whats going on here ? Many thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@techknowlogick](https://forum.gitea.com/u/techknowlogick)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/database-settings-are-invalid/4492/2 "2022-01-25T21:05:17Z")
You are using a significantly out of date version of Gitea ( `1.13.6`), please instead update to latest stable (at time of writing it is `1.15.10` soon to be `1.16.0`)
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### Author:  [@DarkTrinity](https://forum.gitea.com/u/DarkTrinity)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2022, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/database-settings-are-invalid/4492/3 "2022-01-29T10:04:37Z")
Hi, thanks but on another mashine this old version does a very well job.
Now I changed the yml to the new version, pulled again, tried teh setup - same error (of course)
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### Author:  [@DarkTrinity](https://forum.gitea.com/u/DarkTrinity)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2022, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/database-settings-are-invalid/4492/4 "2022-01-29T10:28:41Z")
isn’t there a log to examine ? i started getting sick and tired of repeating and repeating the same steps which just cannot work…
why was that working exactliy tzhis way on test-server on virtual box and wjhy does not work in a webserver ???
Can I somehow remove the gitea completely with all files, configs and everything (without affecting other docker images running) and just reinstall new ?
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### Author:  [@DarkTrinity](https://forum.gitea.com/u/DarkTrinity)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/database-settings-are-invalid/4492/5 "2022-01-29T16:27:19Z")
I got it now - somehow the containers IP address was different to the one on my other mashine. I changed the IPs and all working now.
Identified IP of container by executing:
```auto
docker inspect | grep -i ipaddress
```
It gave me 172.20.0.2. Then I changed the DB-IP in the yml to 172.20.0.1 - all good now
How can I mark this thread as solved ?
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### Author:  [@michael-sparrow](https://forum.gitea.com/u/michael-sparrow)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2025, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/database-settings-are-invalid/4492/6 "2025-08-07T07:43:18Z")
Thank you for posting the solution