[Techtalk] mysql skip_networking and wordpress

[Almut Behrens]

Elwing <elwing at elwing.org> wrote:
> I'm installing a new server to run my web stuff, and I want to  
> connect to the mysql server through the local socket (skip_networking  
> is uncommented in my.cnf), but I cannot for the life of me get  
> wordpress to make a connection to the system.

Are you sure that PHP and MySQL agree on which socket to use? IIRC,
it's /tmp/mysql.sock by default (but you can change it via --socket).
Does that socket exist? Maybe some over-engineered security policy is
keeping mysqld from creating it there... (I've seen it happen).

Good luck,
Almut



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