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

[James]

If you can connect from the commandline, then it is more than likely a
PHP issue.  Hit #php on OPN.

- James


> -----Original Message-----
> From: techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org 
> [mailto:techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org] On Behalf Of Linda
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:03 PM
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] at wit's end with PHP to MySQL
> 
> 
> 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.
> > 
> > --
> > Mary Gardiner
> > <mary at puzzling.org>
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