[Techtalk] at wit's end with PHP to MySQL

[James]

Are you sure MySQL is running?  Could you post your PHP script that you
are using to try to connect to MySQL?

- James

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> [mailto:techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org] On Behalf Of Linda
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 8:25 PM
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: [Techtalk] at wit's end with PHP to MySQL
> 
> 
> I am new to Linux. Have RH7.0 running on a Thinkpad600.
> 
> To help me develop PHP scripts, I installed Apache and MySQL 
> using the RPMs that came with RedHat. I built the PHP RPM from 
> source files.
> 
> Apache and PHP works together, but when I try to use PHP to 
> connect to MySQL, I get the error message "Can't connect to local 
> MySQL server on socket /tmp/mysql.sock"
> 
> According to phpinfo( ), I have a built of PHP that has MySQL.
> 
> I have no clue what is wrong. I have tried all the solutions I have 
> been able to find on the web.
> 
> Linda
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