I’ve recently been playing around with Docker and QGIS and have installed a container following the instructions in this tutorial.
Everything works great, although I am unable to connect to a localhost postgres database that contains all my GIS data. I figure this is because my postgres database is not configured to accept remote connections and have been editing the postgres conf files to allow remote connections using the instructions in this article.
I’m still getting an error message when I try and connect to my database running QGIS in Docker: could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host "localhost" (::1) and accepting TCP/IP connections to port 5433?
The postgres server is running, and I’ve edited my pg_hba.conf file to allow connections from a range of IP addresses (172.17.0.0/32). I had previously queried the IP address of the docker container using docker ps and although the IP address changes, it has so far always been in the range 172.17.0.x
Any ideas why I can’t connect to this database? Probably something very simple I imagine!
I’m running Ubuntu 14.04; Postgres 9.3
