Please read the MySQL FAQ and manual. Long story short is your MySQL is looking for the .sock file in the wrong place. You can either reconfigure it OR create a symlink.
--Tony On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Dave Price wrote: > I upgraded my mysql, and it is definitely running. > > > Server version 3.23.55 > Protocol version 10 > Connection Localhost via UNIX socket > UNIX socket /tmp/mysql.sock > Uptime: 21 min 2 sec > > Threads: 1 Questions: 19 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 7 Flush tables: 1 > Open tables: 1 Queries per second avg: 0.015 > dbx:/usr/local/mysql# > > But install.php fails with: > > Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server > through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111) in > /var/www/geeklog/system/databases/mysql.class.php on line 104 > Cannnot connect to DB server > > /var/run/ has no entries for myssql ... > > any suggestions (I am new to mysql) > > aloha, > dave > > _______________________________________________ > geeklog-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.geeklog.net/listinfo/geeklog-users > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------| Tony Bibbs | "I guess you have to remember that those who don't | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | hunt or fish often see those of us who do as | | harmlessly strange and sort of amusing. When you | | think about it, that might be a fair assessment." | | --Unknown | ------------------------------------------------------------------------|
