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

[Linda]

On 31 Jan 2002, at 12:42, Mary Gardiner wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:24:49PM -0500, Linda wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> OK, just to get some background on your situation:
> 
> What were the solutions you tried?
1.)  I copied  'my-medium.cnf'  to  /etc   and renamed it as  my.cnf
2.)  I built the PHP RPM from source files.
3.)  modified/unmodified   'php.ini'

I think there's more, but I don't remember.

> Can you connect to MySQL from the command line? (ie type "mysql" at the
> prompt).
Yes.

> 
> What's the result of typing "ps aux | grep mysql"? (The command "ps aux"
> lists all processes currently running on your box, the "|" means send
> that output to the next program as input rather than dumping it on the
> screen, and "grep mysql" will print any lines containing the word
> "mysql" in them - this way we can find out if MySQl is actually running
> on your system).
mysql    994    0.0    3.4    20476    2188 pts/0     S     19:59  0:00  
/usr/libexec/mysql

...

root   1070      0.0    0.9     1516       588 ....



> 
> -Mary.
> 
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> Mary Gardiner
> <mary at puzzling.org>
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