# PostgreSQL "connection terminated" - quite frustrated :/

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**Created:** [May 14, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/postgresql-connection-terminated-quite-frustrated/3287 "2020-05-14T04:28:11Z")\
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Hey, JP.

If your DB is in a VPS, you should change your configuration to that IP address.

My DB is running in a VPS, so my proxy is running at `http://MY_IP:2899` (I see “Database proxy my-db-name (postgres) running at http://MY\_IP:2899” in my server) and my database connection string is `postgresql://user:password@127.0.0.1:5432/my-db-name` (I can confirm that this works by running this from the server `psql <MY CONNECTION STRING>`).

If I go to http://MY\_IP:2899 on the browser I see a 401 error (as I should), but when I run the “Test connection” from Observable, I don’t see any connection attempt in the log, just this error “Connection terminated unexpectedly”:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/observablehq/original/2X/3/3a623cdd23a97d4dab259f3afad4e8fe1d9b2f00.png)

@visnup Any suggestions on how to debug this?

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