diff --git a/html/inc/db_conn.inc b/html/inc/db_conn.inc
index d45a95ebb1..ba4d827da5 100644
--- a/html/inc/db_conn.inc
+++ b/html/inc/db_conn.inc
@@ -27,10 +27,17 @@ class DbConn {
 
     function init_conn($user, $passwd, $host, $name) {
         if (MYSQLI) {
-            if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3.0') < 0) {
-                $this->db_conn = new mysqli($host, $user, $passwd);
+            $x = explode($host, ":");
+            if (sizeof($x)>1) {
+                $host = $x[0];
+                $port = $x[1];
             } else {
-                $this->db_conn = new mysqli("p:".$host, $user, $passwd);
+                $port = null;
+            }
+            if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3.0') < 0) {
+                $this->db_conn = new mysqli($host, $user, $passwd, $name, $port);
+            } else {
+                $this->db_conn = new mysqli("p:".$host, $user, $passwd, $name, $port);
             }
             global $mysqli;
             $mysqli = $this->db_conn;
diff --git a/py/Boinc/database.py b/py/Boinc/database.py
index 1d791db380..f73807391c 100644
--- a/py/Boinc/database.py
+++ b/py/Boinc/database.py
@@ -255,8 +255,17 @@ def connect(config = None, nodb = False):
         db = config.db_name
     
     host=config.__dict__.get('db_host','')
+    port=""
+    if ':' in host:
+        host,port=config.__dict__.get('db_host','').split(":")
+
+    if port == '':
+        port = 3306
+    else:
+        port = int(port)
     do_connect(db=db,
                host=host,
+               port=port,
                user=config.__dict__.get('db_user',''),
                passwd=config.__dict__.get('db_passwd', ''))
     return 1
diff --git a/py/Boinc/db_base.py b/py/Boinc/db_base.py
index 01c8bbd608..432bbc1dc3 100644
--- a/py/Boinc/db_base.py
+++ b/py/Boinc/db_base.py
@@ -488,14 +488,15 @@ class DatabaseObject:
     def _set_dirty(self, value=True):
         self.__dict__['_dirty'] = value
 
-def do_connect(db, user, passwd, host='localhost'):
+def do_connect(db, user, passwd, port, host='localhost'):
     """Takes a database name, a username, and password.  Connects to
     SQL server and makes a new Dbconnection."""
     global dbconnection
     if dbconnection:
         raise 'Already connected'
-    dbconnection = MySQLdb.connect(db=db,host=host,user=user,passwd=passwd,
-                                   cursorclass=MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor)
+    dbconnection = MySQLdb.connect(db=db, host=host, port=port, user=user,
+        passwd=passwd, cursorclass=MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor)
+
 def close():
     """Closes the connection to the sql survey and deletes the Dbconnection object."""
     global dbconnection